Here is a sample item from a results list from Gale Virtual Reference Library:

The table below explains the icons and links you may find for each item on your results list. Refer to the example shown above. Remember, clicking the document's hyperlinked title takes you directly to the eBook display page, where you'll find the full text of the corresponding article. You may change the way results are sorted using the Sort by drop-down list, where available.
| Note: Items on your results list are not formatted as official bibliographic citations. To cite a document for notes and bibliography entries, use a standard style. |
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| Icon | Text link | What it means... |
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Always appears as an icon | Checkbox to mark all or unmark all, which will add all documents on the current page or remove them, respectively, from your Marked Items list |
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Always appears as an icon | Checkbox to mark or unmark the document, which will add or remove it, respectively, from your Marked Items list |
| Always appears as a text link | Crimean War (1854 - 1857) | Title of the document is a hyperlink to display the full record |
| Always appears as text | Jonathan VanceEncyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment Ed. Jonathan Vance. 2nd Ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2006. p96-97. | Brief citation information that includes, where applicable: author, editor, edition, source, page number, publisher, date published, publication location, etc. Click the source (publication title) to go to the About this Publication page. (Note: Full citation information can found within the document) |
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Full-text | Click this link to see the full content of the document (no images are included) |
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Full-text with graphics | Indicates that images are included; click this link to see the full content of the document |
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Number PDF Page(s) | Click this link to download the document in Portable Document Format (PDF) for viewing and printing (may not be available for all documents) |
| Always appears as a text link | Publication Title | Click the publication title link to display the About this Publication page, where you'll find publication information and a thumbnail image of the book's cover |
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Check Library Holdings | If enabled by your library, you may see up to three links to allow you to search for the corresponding periodical in your library's or other institution's online holdings catalog |
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Inter-Library Loan | If enabled by your library, allows you to submit a request to borrow materials from another library |
Various possible icons, such as:![]() ![]() |
Various possible text links, such as Link to WorldCat or Link to Ex-Libris SFX Services | If available at your library, you may have additional ways retrieve a document via a special server that will take you out of this Gale collection and into another electronic source or the electronic catalog in your library or in a related library systemlt;/td> |
| Always appears as text | BiographyIntroductionPrimary DocumentTopic Overview | At the far right of the citation you'll see a brief description of the kind of document you'll find |
| Always appears as text | 97% | The relevancy percentage indicates how closely the topic matches your search term(s); the higher the percentage, the more closely the match |
| Note: Icons and text links function the same way. Your library has chosen to display one format or the other. Wherever you see icons, simply hover over the icon to pop up its corresponding text description. |