Research Guides: Dallas College eBooks: Gale eBooks

Gale eBooks

About Gale eBooks

Gale eBooks, otherwise known as Gale Virtual Reference Library, offers materials on a variety of topics to browse and search.

Navigating to Gale eBooks

Go to the Dallas College Library homepage and scroll down to select the red Database box
Underneath the All Subjects drop down, click on the G to narrow the databases to the databases that start with an G.
Click on the Gale eBook link.
On the homepage, users can browse and search titles

How to Search and Access eBooks in Gale eBooks

The home page includes options to search by basic search, subject, publication, and searching in the entire document (book). You can also use advanced search if you're searching with multiple keywords and scroll down the home page to view different collections.
Type in your keyword(s) in the search box. In the search results menu, you can see the number of results on the top left and filter on the top left especially by publication date, document type, and subjects.
Our example here is a topic overview where you can:
- Change the font size or listen to the text through the reading adjustment options
- Save to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, send to email, download, or print
- Access the entire eBook through the eBook link
- Navigate to the table of contents, book view, cite, send resource to, download, and print

Video: Accessing Gale eBooks

eBook Home Page

This section includes helpful information for creating a citation such as

Title
Authur
Imprint (specific brand within a publishing company)
Publication year

Other aspects of note are the Gale Subject Headings which can be helpful for further research depending on your topic

About This Publication screen

This section is helpful to find particular chapters if you have a broad topic in mind. Any of the hyperlinks will take you to a text view of the chapter that you're interested in.

Table of Contents screenshot

This section will be very useful during your search because you can see where certain words can be found in the book either through entering the term in the search box or browsing by specific section of the index.

Book index

This section keeps all the illustrations including tables, graphs, and figures that are part of the book in one place. This can be helpful if you're looking for a specific image or find an illustration interesting while browsing.

By clicking on the image, you will be redirected to the book page that the image is related to for more information.

List of Illustrations view