Gale
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Introduction
According to the Gale Cenage website, Gale is a part of the Cenage Learning Company . Gale creates products for “e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses”, and it “creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform." [1]
Products
A list of databases produced by Gale can be found at the Gale Cenage website. The list of products includes:
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers Part I and Part II
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
- ABC-CLIO eBook
- Academic OneFile
- Archives Unbound
- Business and Company Resource Center
- Career Transitions
- DemographicsNow
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Facts on File eBooks
- Gale Directory Library
- Gale LegalForms
- Gale PowerSearch
- Gale World Scholar
- General OneFile
- General Reference Center Gold
- Global Issues in Context
- GREENR
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
- Health Solutions
- InfoMarks
- InfoTrac Periodical Solutions
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926, The
- Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620–1926, The
- Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926, The
- Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978, The
- New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Nursing Resource Center
- PowerSearch (Gale)
- Science in Context
- Small Business Resource Center
Major Recent Updates
March 2011
Gale updated Gale PowerSearch 2.0 with:
new search features—including Search Assist, search filters, additional limiters, and enhanced relevancy. It is also expanding content—more than 1,500 news periodical titles were added last year—and adding support for additional languages in the user interface. [2]
2010-2011
Gale released seven In Context databases, which are “replacing select Gale Resource Center databases.” [2] An example of an In Context database is Science in Context , and these new databases include “user tools such as topic overviews, quick-fact boxes, and expert-selected content highlights” and “Web 2.0 share tools including links to social networking site.” [2]
Mid-2009
Gale released Gale PowerSearch 2.0 , which “offered the ability to search millions of entries across multiple online resources with just one query.” [2]
Sources
- ↑ “About Gale.” GALE CENAGE Learning, http://www.gale.cengage.com/about/. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “Update on Gale- Mobile, Global, and In Context.” Information Today Europe, http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Spotlight/Update-on-GaleMobile-Global-and-In-Context-73566.asp. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
