Wouldn’t it be great if there were a resource that offered everything you could possibly want to know about prominent historical figures like Rosa Parks in one place? There is! Tackle your next assignment or general interest project with confidence using Gale In Context: Biography, an online database perfect for researchers, teachers, and students in the Ōtorohanga community.
Gale In Context: Biography lets you take a deep dive into the lives of more than 500,000 of the world’s most searched and studied people of the past, as well as the newsmakers and influencers of today. Explore the 650,000+ biographical entries from credible sources and come face-to-face with the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
The database is updated daily to ensure that users have access to the very latest information on everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. Find authoritative peer-reviewed reference content, hand-selected by Gale experts, alongside:
· engaging videos
· audio selections
· a vast array of images
· primary sources
· case studies
· essays
· pro/con viewpoints
· statistical data
· websites
· millions of full-text magazine, journal, and news articles drawn from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers including The New York Times, USA Today, and Daily Mail (London).
You can conduct basic searches using names and keywords or use the Advanced Search option which allows you to filter and narrow down your results. There’s also the Person Search feature, which is great for when you don’t know the name of a person but would like to find results based on certain search parameters; you can specify characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, nationality, occupation, and time period to find people that fit those criteria.
The Browse People section takes you to Gale In Context: Biography’s collection of over 5000 curated topic pages. Each topic page is a one-stop portal of information collecting many different types of key material about a commonly studied notable person, starting with a biographical overview, image, and quick facts panel, then links to additional content available for this person, organised by content type. There are 12 primary categories as well as other more specialised topics that help you to search the Browse People section; some of these include British royalty, religious leaders, holocaust literature, notable women and social reformers.
Integrated tools like G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 make it easy to navigate, organize, save, share, cite, download, and print content (including any highlights and notes you’ve added). Text can be adjusted appearance-wise, as well as translated into more than 20 languages for accessibility, and you can opt to have articles read aloud to you and even download the audio .mp3s for later.
Give Gale In Context: Biography a whirl with 24/7 unlimited access from any device using your library card. Get started on your search now at https://bit.ly/galebiog. If you’re stuck, check out this handy how-to video: https://support.gale.com/doc/bic-video1 ...a more in-depth tutorial is available at https://support.gale.com/doc/bic-acad-tutorial. For questions, more information, or if you need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our staff members.
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