I was unclear when I said this the first time:

" Regularly my students find content that is publicly available on different websites. Sometimes those websites are of questionable or indeterminate quality."

What I meant was, inside the Gale database, they would turn up sources that were just websites. If I asked them to evaluate those websites for authority, it was sometimes not clear why this source should be considered authoritative. I was disappointed with Gale for including sources that seemed of questionable value.



On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:28 AM Rocca, Jennifer <Roccaj@brookfieldps.org> wrote:
We originally let Gale go when the state dropped them and just came back to them this year.

They are much more user-friendly then EBSCO. Regularly my students find content that is publicly available on different websites. Sometimes those websites are of questionable or indeterminate quality. I like Gale better than EBSCO. But we use our ABC-Clio databases far more. ABC-Clio is cheaper, just as user-friendly (if not more), you can still translate and read aloud.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:52 AM Kara Ingalls <kara.ingalls@gmail.com> wrote:
Is renewing Gale worth it if I’m already using Research It CT? As a new LMS I am trying to figure out what to keep and what to cut back on.

Thanks!

Kara Ingalls
Rockville High School
Library Media Specialist

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