SCC’s Gale databases are the library’s most popular databases for finding full text magazines, journals and newspapers. The Library has 30 Gale databases, twelve of which can be searched together. In the last academic year, students, faculty and staff conducted over 266,700 searches using Gale.
Gale recently decided to change the look of many of its databases and so the familiar yellow search screen has been changed to blue to give it more of a web-look.
Gale has also added new features. You can now download the articles in MP3 format, translate them into eleven languages and access the articles using “Readspeaker”, which is a text-to-speech technology.
For the most part, the databases seem to work the same. The biggest difference is in the “Browse Subjects” feature, which used to be called “Subject Guide Search.” However, most users search using the homepage, which used to be called “Basic Search.”
As you use this updated version, please feel free to let the library know what you like/don’t like about it.
