Gale's Ready Reference Shelf uses the power of electronic searching to create an integrated resource that incorporates Gale's most popular general reference databases. Users can access more than 355,500 entries for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations and more.
Fully searchable across all files, Gale's Ready Reference Shelf contains information drawn from:
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf can be used to locate reference information on any subject, organization, publication, database or broadcast station. Students, public and academic librarians and other researchers will find the cross-database searching capability of Gale's Ready Reference Shelf invaluable. Gale's Ready Reference Shelf is designed to deliver results quickly however you wish to search:
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf allows you to search the entire database of integrated content at one time and the data updates are automatic allowing the user to access the latest information available.
"Easy to use on the Web and would be welcome in all types of libraries where detailed directory information is needed for organizations and publications."
-- CHOICE (August 1999)