Now that LitFinder and LitFinder for Schools are both available on the new Gale Literature Resources platform, you need to change your LitFinder access URL to access the new versions of these products by July 29, 2008.
All customers who use LitFinder and LitFinder for Schools are using a version of this access URL on your library’s online databases page: http://www.litfinder.com
Subscribers to LitFinder change your access URL to:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LITF&u=(locationid)
Subscribers to LitFinder for Schools change your access URL to:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LITFS&u=(locationid)
Subscribers to PoemFinder are being upgraded to LitFinder for Schools. Change your access URL to: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LITFS&u=(locationid)
How to get your locationID
If you have other Gale subscriptions, look at the URL that is displayed on the Gale Common Menu (from any of your Gale products, select the “Change Databases” link, this will take you to the Gale Common Menu. Look at the URL that is displayed now. The last part of it is your locationID (also called a user group name). Find additional information about locating your locationID here.
LitFinder's benefits and features
Through a years-long project focused on learning more about the user experience and how to adapt to that workflow, Gale’s Literature Resources have a new relevance in public, academic and school libraries around the globe.
LitFinder is just one of Gale’s premier literature resources to offer this top-to-bottom update of interface and function. In addition to its new interface, LitFinder gains new flexibility and additional content that was — until now — never before available in the product.
LitFinder 2008 — New features and functionality include these sought-after features:
- Cross-searchable with Literature Resource Center
- Complete overhaul of the search experience
- Enriched subject guide and indexing
- Links to Holdings and Open URL support
- Citation Generator (MLA, APA, and more!)
- New Tool Box makes working with results easy!
- Search within a search result
- And more!
In addition, thousands of new works have been added with this new release, from such names as Adrienne Rich, Maxine Kumin, Mahmoud Darwish and William Faulkner. Major collections have also been added to LitFinder for this release, including the complete works of Charles Dickens, Voltaire, Honore de Balzac, James Whitcomb Riley and others.
Questions? Contact your Gale Sales Representative here.
Timetable
The new versions of LitFinder and LitFinder for Schools are both live now on the new Gale platform – you can make this change immediately. The legacy versions of LitFinder and LitFinder for Schools will remain accessible until July 29. After that, if you follow a legacy LitFinder access URL link, you will see a page explaining that LitFinder has moved. You will not be able to access your subscription from that page.
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