Gale In Context http://blog.gale.com/incontext Gale’s new portfolio of online solutions is designed to meet the needs of today’s students, educators and librarians alike. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:04:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 galeblogs/incontexthttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationGale’s new portfolio of online solutions is designed to meet the needs of today’s students, educators and librarians alike. In Context Enhancements Are Here! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/galeblogs/incontext/~3/5zOijZpB9bw/ http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/in-context-enhancements-are-here/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:04:07 +0000 cposa http://blog.gale.com/incontext/?p=129 We are pleased to announce exciting new enhancements to your In Context resources, scheduled to occur in a couple days. Copy and paste the below link into your browser to view a brief presentation that outlines these enhancements.

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]]> http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/in-context-enhancements-are-here/feed/ 0 http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/in-context-enhancements-are-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-context-enhancements-are-here Content Updates – the Latest http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/galeblogs/incontext/~3/a8fZpu2vvf8/ http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/content-updates-the-latest/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:52:30 +0000 cposa http://blog.gale.com/incontext/?p=125 Biography in Context
More than 143,000 videos now appear in Biography in Context! These include video feeds from such sources as Local Broadcast Video and Bloomberg Television, ensuring that Biography in Context has video on some of the most recent developments around people in the news. Examples include:
• President Obama on the campaign trail, including his recent confrontation with a Tea Party activist
• Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her win in the Iowa Straw Poll
• Governor Rick Perry’s announcement that he’s joining the 2012 Republican presidential race
• Bubba Starling signing with the Kansas City Royals
• Comedian George Lopez’s farewell to late night TV after his show was cancelled
• And many more!

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Five new portal pages have been added, for a total of 247!
• Cancer
• Espionage and Intelligence
• Organic Food
• Sexting
• Socialism
Also, a number of new spotlights now appear on the homepage.

Student Resources in Context
8 new Information Plus titles have been added, including:
• Information Plus: Youth Violence, Crime, and Gangs: Children at Risk
• Information Plus: Immigration and Illegal Aliens: Burden or Blessing?
• Information Plus: Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
• Information Plus: Animal Rights
• And more!

U.S. History in Context
Six new topic pages now appear, for a total of 262!
• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Judicial Branch
• Haymarket Square Riot
• Daniel Boone
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
Additionally, a number of homepage changes have been made, including a new featured video and new featured portals.

World History in Context
Six new topic pages have been added, for a total of 248!
• Propaganda
• Globalization
• Fairs and Markets
• Oil and Oil Production
• Calendar
• Immanuel Kant
A new featured video and featured portals are also on the homepage.

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Fifty-two new people pages have been added, including contemporary world leaders, American first ladies, Nobel Prize winners, filmmakers, and more. Examples to highlight:
• Mahmoud Abbas
• Laura Bush
• Hu Jintao
• Hamid Karzai
• Lee Myung-bak
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Nancy Reagan
• Martin Scorsese
• Orson Welles
• And more!

U.S. History in Context

Seven new portal pages have been added, including:
• Alamo
• Jazz
• Henry Clay
• Jane Addams
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Constitutional Convention
• Dorothea Dix

World History in Context

Nine new portal pages have been added to World History in Context:
• Sparta
• Shinto
• Vikings
• Knights
• Spanish Armada
• Hundred Years’ War
• Philip II of Spain
• Fidel Castro
• Socrates

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Thirty new people pages – focusing on Nobel Peace Prize Winners – have been added, including:
• Albert Gore, Jr.
• Dalai Lama
• Kofi Annan
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Shimon Peres
• Yasir Arafat
• Yitzhak Rabin
• And more!

A new Contemporary World Leaders category has also been added; people in the category include:

• Fidel Castro
• Jose Ramos-Horta
• Kim Dae Jung
• Oscar Arias Sanchez
• Queen Elizabeth
• And more!

New spotlights on the home page feature John F. Kennedy and The Beatles.

Canada in Context

Thirty-six new and exclusive overviews on Canadian topics and people have been added, including:

• Autism in Canada
• Bullying in Canada
• Canada and Peacekeeping
• Habitat 67
• Glooscap
• Invasive Species in Canada
• The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
• Treatment of First Nations People
• And more!

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Six new portal pages are now live, including:
• Coal
• Health Insurance
• Media Bias
• Unemployment
• Judicial Activism
• Pacifism

In addition, the homepage is featuring new spotlights and a new video.

Science in Context

Eight new portal pages are now available:

• Human Geography
• Adaptation
• Molecular biology
• Personal health
• Entropy
• Extinction
• Composites
• Celestial Mechanics

Student Resources in Context

Thirty new portals have launched – they include a mix of core literature, history, and science topics and figures, including:

• Kate Chopin
• John Steinbeck
• Illegal Immigrants
• Genocide
• Atoms
• Bipolar Disorder
• Natural Disasters
• Moon Landings
• And more!

]]> http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/check-out-these-new-and-updated-points-of-interest-across-in-context/feed/ 0 http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/check-out-these-new-and-updated-points-of-interest-across-in-context/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=check-out-these-new-and-updated-points-of-interest-across-in-context A message from Frank Menchaca, Executive Vice President http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/galeblogs/incontext/~3/G09oL2pJGRo/ http://blog.gale.com/incontext/uncategorized/92/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 18:13:44 +0000 cposa http://blog.gale.com/incontext/?p=92 In follow up to our usage message a few weeks ago, we are pleased to share with you a host of content, navigation, and administrative enhancements made to all the Gale In Context resources. Please read the attached PDF for this special message from Frank Menchaca, Executive Vice President.

In Context Enhancements_5.13

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