About Gale Databases

• Go to Gale Databases (allows you to select databases to search)
• Go to Gale PowerSearch (preselects all cross-searchable databases)

The following quick-start guide has been created for CSUN students and researchers.

Jump to: Restrictions & Requirements | Searching | Results

Description of Databases

• Business and Company ASAP
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to digital images of 150,000 complete books published during the 18th Century, relevant to the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library has over 100 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.
• General OneFile includes:
  • Expanded Academic ASAP: indexes over 3500 general interest and scholarly journals, including titles in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, with full text articles in over 2000 journals. 1980-
  • Computer Database: indexes 659 computer journals with full text articles from 354 journals, 1980-
  • General Business File ASAP: indexes over 3400 business sources with full text to 2723 journals, 1980-
  • InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy
  • Custom Military Database
• General Reference Center Gold indexes 4489 sources, newspapers, reference books and journals with full text articles in 3523 sources, 1980-
• Health Reference Center Academic indexes over 900 journals with full text articles in 686 journals, 1980-
• Literature Criticism Online provides full-text access to the literary criticism collections Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
• Literature Resource Center provides one search access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature plus full text articles from 263 journals. For more information, see About Literature Resource Center.
• MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which lists detailed information on over 5,500 journals, including over 4,400 indexed in the Bibliography. 1926-
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Updated daily.
• The Times Digital Archive contains complete digital edition of The Times (London), 1785-1985. Uses keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Restrictions and Software Requirements

• CSUN users (students, faculty, and staff)
• Cookies accepted, JavaScript enabled, and minimum 800x600 screen resolution

Searching

Search using Gale Powersearch for maximum retrieval of sources.

Advanced Search

In Advanced Search you can search by Keyword, Abstract, Document Title, Author, Publication Title, Publisher Name, ISSN, ISBN, Subject, Person Name, Company Name, Place Name or Brand Name. The default search is Keyword; use the pull-down menu to select other search fields. Narrow or expand your search using the menu of boolean terms on the left to combine search terms.

You can also further limit your search to full-text only, items containing images, peer-reviewed journals, and restrict the search according to publication date, publication title, or indexed subject.

Search Tips

• Wildcards are ?, !
• Truncation is *

Subject Guide Search

Enter words in the search box to find subjects, people, products, locations and organizations that contain those words. In the resulting subject list, click Related Subjects or Subdivisions to find related terms. Clicking on the subject heading itself will retrieve records that contain it.

Results

The results list is divided into tabs according to media type: Magazines, Academic Journals, Books, News, and Multimedia.

1. Click the title of a result to view full text if available.
2. Click the Find Text link for access to other external full-text resources, Oviatt Library holdings information, and Interlibrary loan.
3. Check the box next to items in search results list to create a Mark List that you can retrieve for email or printing later.
4. Click the linked terms in the yellow Search box to the left to narrow your search by document type, publication title, or subject terms.
5. Check the full-text, peer-reviewed, and with images boxes to filter results by full-text availability, peer-review status, and image availability.
6. The Previous Searches link at the top will let you return to and modify previous searches made during your current session.
7. Click the Bookmark link to generate a URL that you can paste into another document and save so that you can return to your search after terminating your session.