25 GVRL Titles for Minitex Libraries

Gale recently offered 25 titles from Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) at no additional charge as part of our Minitex contract. The MEIR Task Force selected the following 25 titles as best serving all types of libraries across the Minitex region. These titles are automatically included in other Gale databases we receive like Student Resources in Context and Expanded Academic ASAP via PowerSearch and Interlink. For Minnesota libraries and users, a link to the collection on the ELM Portal is coming soon. If you’d like to set up links to this GVRL collection from your library site, read on for several options and more information. Titles:

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
• Career Information Center
• Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
• Grzimek's Animal Life: Extinction
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Environmental Encyclopedia
• Gale Encyclopedia of American Law
• Human Diseases & Conditions
• Encyclopedia of Public Health
• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests
• American Eras Primary Sources: Westward Expansion (1800-1860)
• American Eras: Primary Sources: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1878)
• American Eras: Primary Sources: Development of the Industrial United States (1878-1899)
• Bioethics
• Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
• Shakespeare for Students
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
• The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Encyclopedia of Small Business (coming July 2015)

Libraries with existing GVRL collections

New titles are already automatically integrated into existing GVRL collections.

Libraries without existing GVRL collections

Choose how you’d like to link: 1. To link to the full collection, use this link: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/LocationID?db=GVRL (replace LocationID with your library’s location id) 2. To link to individual titles, follow these steps:

• Start at http://support.gale.com/
• click “View Your Gale Resources,”
• enter your library’s location id,
• locate and click “Gale Virtual Reference Library,”
• locate and click “ebook URLs.”

Note: If prompted for password after setting up link(s), submit your library’s IP addresses to Gale using your Minitex MyLibrary account.

Usage Statistics

GVRL stats are available alongside usage stats for other Gale databases via the Gale Administrative Module. Instructions here.

MARC Records

MARC Records can be downloaded from Gale via http://support.gale.com/.

Other Details

Access to these 25 GVRL titles is subscription based and active through the duration of the ELM contract. If the collection includes titles that individual libraries have purchased on their own, no credit for duplicates or additional selections will be made available.