Want to make online researching easier for students and teachers? Enrich learning and instruction by adding to your school eBook library. Gale eBooks offer digital nonfiction content delivered through a user-friendly platform. Whether they’re elementary school eBooks or school eBooks for other grade levels, you’ll find titles designed to fit your curriculum and engage students. Plus, these school eBooks offer unlimited, simultaneous access anytime—with no special downloads or apps.

Beyond primary or K-12 eBooks, you can explore content within our latest professional development collections from top publishers. Find collections on specific initiatives and popular trends in education too.

Student Collections

With today’s distance learning, it’s important to build a school eBook library that supports a blended approach. Offer K-12 eBooks that are accessible anytime, anywhere. Our Gale eBooks student collections focus on age-appropriate, curriculum-aligned educational topics; social and emotional learning; and more.

Educator PD Collections

Here’s something to add to your school eBook library. Make professional learning less of a balancing act, with digital professional development (PD). From virtual learning to literacy instruction, these eBook collections offer educators ongoing professional development that’s personalized, job embedded, and tied to evaluations.

The Latest in eBooks

Break Barriers: Get Kids Thinking Critically About Bias

Of the many challenges schools have had to face this past year, guiding students on overcoming biases ranks high. AASL 2020-2021 president and four experts in the field share how librarians and other educators can rely on credible sources to help students think critically and push past biases.
 

Foster Empathy with Inclusive eBooks

On Booklist’s Shelf Care podcast, Gale eBooks author Duchess Harris talks about what schools can do to make diversity and inclusion more than just buzzwords. Hear her insights on the titles in these teacher-curated collections.
 

Support Social and Emotional Learning

Help students battle emotional learning and mental health challenges with age-appropriate, evidence-based SEL eBooks in and outside the classroom.

Engage Students Wherever Learning Happens

Is online learning part of your plan this fall? Explore our latest catalog of eBook collections to get student-focused content—from STEAM to social issues—all without the frustration of holds or checkouts

Why eBooks? School Library Best Practices

If you’re like 86 percent of the school librarians we surveyed, you’re constantly looking for new ways to digitize your library, with an approach that engages users. Learn how innovative librarians and industry experts are making it work for their schools.

Look Inside

The Gale eBooks homepage allows users to either browse by subject or search the full catalog.

The search results reveal relevant content at the article and chapter levels for ease of finding information.

The HTML article-view provides an easy browsing experience.

Integrated directly into the user’s workflow formatted citations can be exported to a variety of services and platforms.

Platform Tools & Features

Workflow Tools

Integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes. Learn More

On-Demand Translation

Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages. 

Superior Search

Detailed subject indexing allows users to search content based on subject, title, document type, and more.