Gale – Academic, Public and Special Libraries
Product Highlights
Every Gale product qualifies for special Minitex pricing, with the exception of some
third party databases.
Gale Digital Collections
National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 features the complete archive of the award-wining, iconic National Geographic magazine with its unparalleled, in-depth coverage of world cultures, nature, science, technology, and the environment.
Nineteenth
Century U.S. Newspapers features digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped
articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers as well as advanced searching capabilities.
For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article,
advertisement, and illustration.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006.
As the "world's newspaper of record," The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art and architecture, and more. The Times Digital Archive, 1986-2006 features an additional 795,000 pages, almost doubling the original collection. With an exciting, new interface and 20 years of additional content, The Times Digital Archive, 1986-2006 is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Slavery and
Anti-Slavery is a historical archive organized thematically and devoted to the study and understanding
of the history of slavery. With more than 6,000 books and pamphlets, over 50 newspaper and periodical titles,
and a dozen major manuscript collections for Part I alone, it is the most ambitious project of its kind.
Once completed, the entire four-part digital archive will comprise 5 million pages of documents.
Career Transitions
This complete, self-paced application walks job-seekers through the entire process from assessing
strengths and interests, to exploring new opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of
landing a job. With Career Transitions users can:
- Prepare: build, save, retrieve and update personal career information with a career toolkit
- Assess: explore current skills, occupational knowledge and interests and match them with fulfilling career paths
- Explore: investigate thousands of career paths, industries, locations and companies
- Improve: find educational opportunities and take classes to increase hiring chances
- Apply: search job listings from around the country that meet user criteria
Career Transitions is a turnkey career resource that saves staff time and effort and provides
users with an easy-to-use tool to support their job search from start to finish.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
GREENER is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging
green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.
The content includes English-language international newspapers, magazines, and refereed journals; videos,
podcasts, and images, updated daily; searchable case studies; interactive maps that facilitate browsing
by country or topic; and country portals covering more than 160 nations.
Biography Resource Center
This comprehensive online biographical reference database is designed to meet the needs
of public, school and academic libraries in the areas of literature, science,
multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history,
arts and newsmakers.
The Biography Resource Center contains nearly 414,000 biographies on more than
320,000 people from around the world and throughout history. It combines more than 135
frequently consulted Thomson Gale biographical databases with more than 265 full-text
periodicals.
Book Review Index Plus
The Book Review Index family of online products includes two distinct and
separately saleable databases, including Book Review Index Online and
Book Review Index Online Plus. They are both OpenURL compliant, allowing
subscribers to link to full-text reviews from other sources.
Book Review Index Online (index only) is a comprehensive guide to book
reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of
publications. Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index
Online, includes more than five million review citations; it also includes more
than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded
Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings.
Science in Context
A curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all
science-related research needs. A standards search allows teachers to search for
correlated content they can use in lesson plans they develop to meet their specific
state standards.
Testing & Education Reference Center
This database includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and
graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major,
tuition, sports and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for
preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing
tests, including:
- ACT (American College Test)
- CLEP (College Level Examination Program)
- GED (General Education Development)
- GMAT CAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)
- GRE® CAT (Graduate Record Examination General Test)
- SAT (Scholastic Achievement Test)
- And others
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Consisting of Lucent/Greenhaven Press social issues series, periodicals and
proprietary Gale reference titles, Opposing Viewpoints is a dynamic online library
of current event topics—the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's
proponents and detractors. Exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information
Plus series of statistics, government data, information on legislation and more.
World History in Context
World History in Context offers students and researchers award-winning
reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources,
images and maps, integrated into a comprehensive, cross-searchable database. It
seamlessly integrates 17 reference sources from Gale, Macmillan and Scribner, along
with full-text articles from over 100 academic journals.
Over 1,500 primary source documents, including some native language documents with
new translations, from Primary Source Microfilm Collections are included, with a
high percentage that never have been available electronically in the United States
before. Historical news sources, 500 maps, 1,000 images, statistical information and
links to the library's OPAC are also a part of this comprehensive tool.
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context is a new electronic resource that offers global perspectives
on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related
to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context ties together a
variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues—social, political, military, economic,
environmental, science related, health related, cultural—and headlines in world hot spots.
It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and
events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
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Gale Cengage Learning
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Gale Cengage Learning
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Kris Wheeler (Academic Libraries – Digital Collections)
Archival Solutions Program
Gale Cengage Learning
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Email: Kristopher.wheeler@cengage.com
Joanne Petz (Academic Libraries – Digital Collections)
Archival Solutions Program
Gale Cengage Learning
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Email: Joanne.petz@cengage.com
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Gale Cengage Learning
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Gale Cengage Learning
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