EPIC offers access to 14 comprehensive resources from Gale Cengage. This page provides database descriptions, links to the title lists of these resources, as well as an update on Gale Cengage's latest developments.
The Literature Resource Center has been migrated to a new, more robust platform. All EPIC libraries will be changed over on 1 August. No change to URL.
Gale's General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 6,300 full-text titles (more than 11,000 titles in all) and backfile coverage from 1980 — from mainstream to specialized sources — and an intuitive search interface make this an unequalled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/onefile/

Biography Resource Center is Gale's premier biographical online reference database, designed to meet the needs of public, academic, special and school libraries throughout the world. Biography Resource Center contains more than 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people gathered from more than 1,000 volumes of more than 135 award-winning Gale reference sources as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their value to biographical research.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/BiographyRC/

Gale Business Reference Suite is made up of the following databases:
- Business & Industry – a multi-industry database with a strong global focus on company, industry and product information
- Business & Management Practices – focuses on the processes, methods and strategies of managing a business.
- TableBase – provides access to thousands of hard-to-find tables that are indispensable to daily research.
Title lists are here:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/title_lists/
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press – with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in more than 190 countries.
For more information go to:
www.gale.cengage.com

The Discovering Collection provides quick access to accurate information via an intuitive interface that takes the guesswork out of research. Gale's Discovering Collection allows students to get the "whole picture" on any curriculum topic. Provide your students award-winning reference content from Gale and they will develop their critical-thinking skills by placing people, places, events and primary documents in context. Results can be sorted into two different content levels – basic and intermediate.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/DiscoveringCollection/

Health & Wellness Resource Center has established itself as the “go-to” medical reference in libraries everywhere. Providing easy-to-find answers via an intuitive and customizable interface makes this an ideal resource for researchers of all ages and levels of study.
The new and updated Health & Wellness Resource Center, with its Alternative Health Module, includes even more references, full-text journals and the new Disease Profiler module. From medical professionals to the curious, Health & Wellness Resource Center leads your library’s patrons to the medical information solutions they’re looking for — quickly and accurately!
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/Health/

History Resource Center: World combines a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources with easy-to-use search functionality. This collection offers students and history enthusiasts seamless access to Gale’s secondary sources, primary sources and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/HistoryRCWorld/

Literature Resource Center is a great current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
For more information go to :
http://www.gale.cengage.com/LitSol/products/lrc/index.htm

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more! This collection is a key resource for students preparing for debates or speeches.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/OpposingViewpoints/quick.htm

Student Resource Center offers easy access to award-winning content covering the major subject areas, including history, literature, science, social studies and more. Student Resource Center provides a premium selection of reference, thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Results can be sorted into three different content levels - basic, intermediate and advanced, helping to make this resource user friendly for all customers.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/SRC/

Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers print reference titles in a database format. There are just over 100 full-text reference titles that are currently available through EPIC. GVRL searches like other databases in the EPIC suite. The key benefit of GVRL is that it provides another way to access reference content that you already have in some of the resource centers.
For more information go to:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/gvrl/about.htm

Books & Authors is a reader’s advisory database which offers new ways to explore combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. This online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers. Books & Authors contains all of the content previously held in What Do I Read Next plus so much more!
For more information go to:
www.gale.cengage.com