Thomson Gale: Gale Virtual Reference Library

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License Agreed
Country-wide for all not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutes 

Service Type
Online collection of reference e-Books. To find out which services are available in your country, please contact your country coordinator.

Content
Allows you purchase titles one eBook at a time and provide them to your users online — so you can offer remote, 24-7 access. No specialized reader or hardware are required — just a standard Web browser and the Adobe Acrobat® plug-in.  Gale Virtual Reference Library's powerful delivery platform puts your reference content into circulation

List of Titles
Complete title list: http://www.gale.com/gvrl/priceList.xls

Subject Strengths

  • Business
  • Education
  • Health and Medicine
  • Literature
  • Religion and the Social Sciences


Service Strengths

  • Over 1,100 titles to choose from
  • Publishers include Cambridge, Sage, Springer and Wiley
  • Available online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • MARC records for all titles

URL to platform/collection access
http://www.gale.com/gvrl/index.htm 

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use GVRL.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

URL to general publisher site
http://lr.thomsonlearning.co.uk

For help and support from the publisher please contact
Thomson Learning
High Holborn House
50/51 Bedford Row
London
WC1R 4LR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7067 2500
Fax: +44 (0)20 7067 2600
Email: tlemea.enquiries@thomson.com

For further information please contact your country coordinator
Please contact your country coordinator, who's details can be found on your country page. Please select your country from the drop-down menu on the top right of this page.

More information for librarians
To go to the librarian's page please click here