Ebooks at MSJC Libraries: Gale Ebooks

About Ebooks at MSjC

Managing Your Gale Search Results

Gale eBooks offers several options for managing your search results, such as sending article and eBook citations to your email or other platforms. From your search results screen, you can adjust your results using the filters on the right side of the page. Select items you are interested in by clicking the title link. Options for saving your content will appear on the article level page.

Please note! Make sure you download or send eBook or article citations, highlights and notes, to yourself before exiting the Gale eBooks platform. Contents from your current session cannot be saved and will be lost after you close your browser!

How to Save an Article from a Gale eBook

Gale provides several tools on the article page that allow you to work with the content.

  • Choose from the options in the menu just above the article text or in the top menu bar.
  • Click to the full eBook page using the book's title link.
  • Explore related results and topics.
  • Highlight and add notes to selected text in the article.

Gale eBook article level tools screenshot

Highlights and Notes

Here's how to highlight text and add notes:

  1. Select text.
  2. The Highlight and Notes tool will appear where you can choose a highlight color or add notes.
  3. Optionally, you can also grab the content's citation or highlight specific words and find their definition.

To access your Highlights and Notes during your current session, click the Highlight and Notes link in the top menu bar. From there you can download or print the citation and highlighted text, or send it to your Google Drive, OneDrive, or email,