LISWire - Free Resources http://liswire.com/taxonomy/term/1115/0 en Meet me @ the Library – Gale Celebrates National Library Week with Fun Giveaways and Free Access to Resources http://liswire.com/content/meet-me-library-%E2%80%93-gale-celebrates-national-library-week-fun-giveaways-and-free-access-resour <p>Farmington Hills, MI, April 4, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, is celebrating National Library Week, April 8–14, by encouraging library advocacy in local communities across the country. To help drive awareness at the local level, and to support the American Library Association theme, You Belong @ the Library, Gale will be offering limited edition bumper magnets with the tag line: Meet me @ the Library, to the first 100 libraries to visit and “like” the Gale Facebook page (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage" title="http://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage">http://www.facebook.com/GaleCengage</a>).</p> <p>In addition, Gale is offering free access to dozens of its online resources, such as Powerspeak Languages, Career Transitions and the In Context products, to U.S. and Canadian customers via its trial program site - <a href="http://www.galetrials.com/" title="http://www.galetrials.com/">http://www.galetrials.com/</a>. </p> <p>“Library advocacy is a core value at Cengage Learning and something we focus on all year,” said Nader Qaimari, senior vice president, marketing, Cengage Learning. “Today’s libraries offer something for everyone and this year we wanted to help libraries spread this message to their communities in a fun and effective way.”</p> <p>Some recent library advocacy programs initiated by Gale include Librareo, Gale ProMo, the Small Library Support Program and the Are You a Librarian Superhero? contest.</p> <p>Librareo – a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies (LIS) programs with free access to the professional resources they’ll rely upon following graduation. LIS students who register are given unlimited access to more than a dozen of the most-requested Gale resources throughout their library school career, a free one year subscription to either Library Journal or School Library Journal, and access to industry thought leaders via the Librareo community.</p> <p>Gale ProMo – This new service allows librarians to create promotional materials – bookmarks, posters, tent cards and more – with their library’s name and message all for free. Librarians can choose standard items or custom make materials with their library information. Promotional materials for specific products or general promotional items are also available.</p> <p>Small Library Support Program – Designed specifically for small and rural libraries serving communities of 50,000 or fewer, Gale is offering select resources that help librarians provide resources for the most-requested information all at unprecedented savings. Special programs, training and services will also be offered in the coming months.</p> <p>Are You a Librarian Superhero? contest – For the second year, Gale is hosting the Are You a Librarian Superhero? contest to recognize the heroic efforts put forth by librarians around the country. Visit the Gale booth at the American Library Association’s annual meeting in June for the announcement of the winners.</p> <p>For more information on these programs and Gale’s award winning resources, please visit <a href="http://www.gale.cengage.com" title="http://www.gale.cengage.com">http://www.gale.cengage.com</a> or contact <a href="mailto:kristina.massari@cengage.com">kristina.massari@cengage.com</a>. </p> <p>About Cengage Learning and Gale<br /> Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs—from homework help to health questions to business profiles—in a variety of formats. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.cengage.com" title="www.cengage.com">www.cengage.com</a> or <a href="http://www.gale.cengage,com" title="www.gale.cengage,com">www.gale.cengage,com</a>. </p> <p>###</p> Press Release Academic Libraries Cengage Learning Company free Free Resources Gale Librarians national library week NLW Public Libraries School Librarians Special Libraries Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:07:28 +0000 kmassari 1214 at http://liswire.com Free Resources from EBSCO Publishing Providing Useful Information to Researchers http://liswire.com/content/free-resources-ebsco-publishing-providing-useful-information-researchers <p>~More than 100,000 Institutions Benefit from Free Resources Offered via EBSCOhost®~</p> <p>IPSWICH, Mass. — June 22, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) began providing key database content free of charge in 2008 and more and more users are incorporating these free resources into their daily research routines. Two free EBSCOhost® resources, GreenFILE™, and Library, Information Science &amp; Technology Abstracts™ (LISTA), have seen a tremendous amount of usage—a good indicator that EBSCO is providing the types of content users need, when they need it, and that these free resources are adding value to institutions around the globe. </p> <p>GreenFILE focuses on environmental efforts while LISTA is geared toward those interested in libraries and information management. Today, there are more than 100,000 institutions benefiting from the free content in GreenFILE or LISTA. Statistics over the past 12 months have shown that there have been nearly 100 million searches for these two EBSCOhost resources alone—nearly 53 million searches performed in GreenFILE and more than 46 million searches in LISTA. </p> <p>EBSCOhost databases are usually available by institution-level subscription only, but by making GreenFILE and LISTA freely available to anyone, EBSCO’s goal is to make it easy for those interested in environmental or library &amp; information resources to get quick access to relevant information.</p> <p>EBSCO Publishing President Tim Collins says these resources are in subject areas that tie in to EBSCO’s corporate culture. “EBSCO has made significant efforts to be an environmentally responsible company and making GreenFILE available to anyone interested is consistent with our commitment to make a difference in this area. We decided to make LISTA freely available as a way of supporting libraries as we have appreciated our decades-long relationship with the library community. We are very pleased to see the significant usage of these free resources.” </p> <p>GreenFILE<br /> GreenFILE is a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. The database offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. GreenFILE is freely available at <a href="http://www.greeninfoonline.com" title="www.greeninfoonline.com">www.greeninfoonline.com</a>. </p> <p>LISTA<br /> LISTA indexes more than 550 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO’s intention to provide access to LISTA on a continual basis at <a href="http://www.libraryresearch.com" title="www.libraryresearch.com">www.libraryresearch.com</a>. Customers currently subscribing to other EBSCOhost databases may elect to have LISTA added to their EBSCOhost profile.</p> <p>Users can also take advantage of accessing the resources through EBSCOhost, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. EBSCOhost offers a clean look and feel, for a technologically sophisticated, yet familiar search experience. Built-in flexibility provides users with the ability to customize their searches and brings an intuitive approach to searching online databases.</p> <p>About EBSCO Publishing<br /> EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search™, Business Source®, CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Literary Reference Center™, MasterFILE™, NoveList®, SocINDEX™ and SPORTDiscus™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database™, EconLit, Inspec®, MEDLINE®, MLA International Bibliography, The Philosopher’s Index™, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. </p> <p>EBSCO is the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ a core collection of locally-indexed metadata creating a unified index of an institution’s resources within a single, customizable search point providing everything the researcher needs in one place—fast, simple access to the library’s full text content, deeper indexing and more full-text searching of more journals and magazines than any other discovery service (<a href="http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery" title="www.ebscohost.com/discovery">www.ebscohost.com/discovery</a>). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: <a href="http://www.ebscohost.com" title="www.ebscohost.com">www.ebscohost.com</a>, or contact: <a href="mailto:information@ebscohost.com">information@ebscohost.com</a>. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.<br /> ###<br /> For more information, please contact:<br /> Kathleen McEvoy<br /> Public Relations Manager<br /> (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594<br /> <a href="mailto:kmcevoy@ebscohost.com">kmcevoy@ebscohost.com</a></p> Press Release Company Databases EBSCO Publishing EBSCOhost Free Resources GreenFILE Librarians LISTA Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:39:14 +0000 kmcevoy 688 at http://liswire.com
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