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1-800-877-GALE www .gale.com Science Resource Center Navigation Guide Science Resource Center is an exciting new online database designed for use in high school libraries and classrooms, community colleges and public libraries. Similar in concept to other Thomson Gale ™ resource centers, Science Resource Center combines many different types of co[...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 2 ■ Content Level indicators (details below) help students identify the most appropriate content (you may choose to disable this function) ■ T imeline Search (details below) places science events and discoveries in context to historical events ■ Spotlight art[...]
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T o contact technical support via e-mail, send your message to T echnicalSupport@gale.com (inside the U.S and Canada) 3 S EARCH O PTIONS Powerful search capabilities deliver concise results. Search one of five ways from the main screen. It is easy to perform a full-scale search by selecting a topic from the alphabetical list of more than 80 topics [...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 4 S UBJECT S EARCH R ESUL TS T ABS A search for DNA returned citations in all six tabs: Reference, Magazines, Academic Journals, Newspapers, Multimedia and W eb sites. An extensive Subject Guide list is displayed on the left of the screen with all subjects contain-[...]
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5 N EWSP APERS T AB The Newspapers tab listed six articles from The New Y ork T imes; however , to view additional newspaper articles resulting from a defaulted Keyword Search, simply click on the subtab for More Newspapers. Y ou can toggle between featured newspaper articles and the additional newspaper articles. Note: The subtab, Featured Newspap[...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 6 In this search result, the W eb site gave us access to an inter - active presentation on the journey into DNA and how it functions within the human body . Note the related subjects links in the left margin. Y ou can also print or e-mail this article. The source c[...]
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T o contact technical support via e-mail, send your message to T echnicalSupport@gale.com (inside the U.S and Canada) 7 P UBLICA TION S EARCH Y ou can search for articles in a specific publication from the Publication Search screen. Find the title by the first word of a title or any word in the title. A search for astronomy as any word in the title[...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 8 A DV ANCED S EARCH With Advanced Search you build your own search by select- ing from a variety of search criteria. This lets you target the results to focus more precisely on the information you seek. Y ou can build as simple or as complex a search you need. Her[...]
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T o contact technical support via e-mail, send your message to T echnicalSupport@gale.com (inside the U.S and Canada) 9 S EARCH R ESUL TS Once you have filled in your search criteria and selected Search, a list of subject terms most closely matching your criteria will appear on the left hand side of the screen and a list of documents that meet your[...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 10 S EARCH H ISTOR Y Search terms are captured when you enter a term and the “Search” button is clicked. T erms are also captured when you select a term from the Subject Guide. Scroll down the list to see search history . T o execute a search from the list, sel[...]
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T o contact technical support via e-mail, send your message to T echnicalSupport@gale.com (inside the U.S and Canada) 11 I NFO M ARK W EB P AGE G ENERA TOR An InfoMark W eb Page Generator icon at the top of any page indicates that the URL of the page persists even when the session is over . Persistent URLs can be bookmarked for future reference, co[...]
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For technical support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, call 1-800-877-GALE (option 4) 12 ■ Click Insert Section Heading to optionally add a subhead- ing title to group one or more InfoMark items. Note: Y ou may add up to 50 InfoMark ed items and Section Headings to your W eb page. Using an InfoMark If you created an InfoMark as a bookmark or short[...]
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T o contact technical support via e-mail, send your message to T echnicalSupport@gale.com (inside the U.S and Canada) 13 T RUNCA TION : Asterisk (*)— The asterisk can stand in for any number of characters. For example: ■ scien* This will return results with words like science, scientist, sci- entific. Note: you must have at least two characters[...]
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GML35704 JR/SS 10/04 © 2004 Thomson Gale , part of The Thomson Corporation. Thomson, Star Logo and Macmillan Reference USA are trademarks , and Gale and UX*L are registered tr ademarks used herein under license. D AT E R ANGES : ■ 1970-1979 ■ 1938-1945 U SE OF S TOP W ORDS : Note on the use of stopwords: Because the search engine does not reco[...]