EXPANDING THE POSSIBILITIES OF RESEARCH FOR LIBRARIES AND THEIR USERS

Learn how we provide libraries with essential content and tools that allow researchers and students to expand the possibilities of their research.

Gale is a global leader in education, learning, and research resources online.

We have a vast digital archive of Primary Sources, research databases, reference books (both eBook and print), and more!

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Gale Primary Sources Learning Centers

Gale Primary Sources Learning Centers orient users with the content and topics available in a digital archive, spark inspiration for new research topics, and provide guidance and best practices for searching, browsing, citing, and reusing primary sources.

Follow Gale Fellows on their Digital Humanities Journeys

Explore how accomplished researchers with varying experience using digital humanities tools developed new skills and made unexpected discoveries while pushing past barriers to digital humanities at their institutions.

BUILDING GALE PRIMARY SOURCES

Watch this behind the scenes video and discover how Gale develops its Gale Primary Sources working with one of its source institution partners The National Archives, UK. This is a fascinating look into how Gale and The National Archives work together to digitize collections and make them accessible to students and researchers across the world.

New releases

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organising from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries.

CHINA AND THE
MODERN WORLD

Records of Shanghai and the International Settlement, 1836–1955, provides a primary source collection vital to understanding and researching the social, political, and economic history of not just the British-dominated yet highly globalised International Settlement in Shanghai but the history of modern China.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

In this series, researchers can explore unique primary sources that trace the evolution of land rights, resource usage, trade rules, and environmental protections that mark the beginning of the modern conservation movement.

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THE TIMES DIGITAL ARCHIVE, 1785-2019*

This archive provides access to the backfile of one of the world’s longest-running and most respected newspapers, including supplements and its early editions as the Daily Universal Register. A valuable multidisciplinary resource, it is one of the most cited newspapers in modern scholarship.

GALE IN CONTEXT: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

Database designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language arts presents each side of important issues and empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COLLECTIONS ONLINE

The archives in this series provide the largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind, with fully searchable digitizations of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800.

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GALE REVIEW BLOG

Our international blog where you can meet our publishing teams, archivists, guest academics, and student ambassadors as they unearth fascinating primary sources that have yet to be studied – or explore frequently studied topics from exciting new angles.

ARCHIVES EXPLORED

How can you use Gale Primary Sources archives to look at various topics? These studies and topic guides show you examples of things you can find and do with the archives, with access to view original articles in the platform.

DATABASES EXPLORED

A new resource section that offers access to selected samples from Gale's database products, arranged by popular topics and subjects.

Products Areas

Primary
Sources

Enhance your institution's ability to do deep research with rare, primary source materials that are now at your fingertips digitally.

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Databases

Support your researchers with up-to-date, full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals, videos, and podcasts.

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eBooks

Turn research into results with eBooks. Gale's eBook platform brings our extensive eBook collection to libraries – from foundational classics to new, topical titles.

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Microform

Gale offers Microform for important records and documents that have yet to make the transition to digital.

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Explore over 5,000 reference and nonfiction, and fiction titles across multiple formats including large print.

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