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Gale Directory Library: A Database Guide: Searching & Selecting Results

A research guide covering how to utilize the Gale Directory Library database

Searching

This tutorial shows you how to narrow a research topic within Gale Directory Library.

Gale Directory Library is a digital treasure trove collection of premier directories on companies, publishers, associations, and more—sources that are unavailable or difficult to find on the internet.  (10:38 min.)

Selecting Results

Let’s take a look at one of the results in our search. As you can see below we can see the TITLEAUTHOR, and SOURCE of the article. 

Click on the article TITLE to see more detailed information. Again, you can see the TITLEAUTHOR, and SOURCE. By clicking the blue hyperlinks, users can search articles by the same author, Publication Index, related articles, and subject. In addition, you can now view the ABSTRACT. An ABSTRACT is a brief summary of the article, allowing you to see what the article is about without reading the whole thing. To access the article, click on the FULL TEXT icon on the top right of the page.