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Thomson Gale, is now Gale-Cengage. Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.

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19th Century British Library Newspapers

Covering 48 newspapers from England, Scotland and Wales from 1800 - 1900.

19th Century US Newspapers

Covering local  papers from all 50 states ranging from 1800 - 1899.

Academic ASAP

A core version of Expanded Academic ASAP™, this database covers art and literature to economics and the sciences. This all-in-one resource for academic research integrates the full text of more than 600 publications from across the disciplines.

Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile offers peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Agriculture Collection

Collection of journals ranging from agribusiness to molecular microbiology.

Advanced Placement Fine Arts and Music

Advanced Placement Government and Social Studies

Advanced Placement Honors Literature

Advanced Placement Psychology

Advanced Placement Global History

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center contains more than 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from around the world and throughout history. It combines more than 100 frequently consulted Gale biographical databases with more than 250 full-text periodicals.

Biography Resource Center - African Americans

Book Review Index

Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool.

More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

Book Review Index Online Plus

Book Review Index Online Plus provides more than 634,000 full-text reviews — and links to others — to researchers in seconds.

Business & Company Resource Center

Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities. Business & Company Resource Center is customizable with your choice of specialty modules - including the PROMT and Investext Plus (formerly Research Bank Web) modules -- to bring you the information you need most.

Business & Industry

Business & Industry is an acclaimed multi-industry business database with a strong global focus on company, product and industry information. Efficient in concept and design, Business & Industry provides you with the precise and relevant indexing that ensures easy and successful searching -- plus the valuable facts, figures and trends you'll need to gain a strategic and competitive edge. Business & Industry is one of the most widely used business databases throughout the world -- in companies, colleges and universities, and public libraries.

Business & Company Profiles ASAP

Business & Company ProFiles integrates information from Business Index ASAP and the full text of PR Newswire releases with over 200,000 combined directory listings including the Graham & Whiteside international company directories.

Business Reference Suite

Business Reference Suite gives you balanced and highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information. By combining the complementary strengths of Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase Gale delivers a comprehensive business research package. These databases form a core business reference collection featuring more than 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data. Suite coverage is over 60% full text, and over 45% international.

Computer Database

For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet- accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.

Consulta

To meet the demands of both Spanish-and English-speaking researchers, the revised Consulta 2.0 has incorporated several key enhancements - including an interface that can easily switch between English and Spanish. Thomson Gale has partnered the premiere Spanish-language reference publisher, Grupo Ocèano, to offer high-quality reference works for students, professionals and general readers on crucial subjects such as careers, health, history and literature. Consulta 2.0 maintains the scope and functionality that users have come to expect. In addition, Consulta 2.0 includes a graphical Timeline as well as a Map Center, Anatomical Atlas and Literature Library. Consulta 2.0 gathers reference material, primary sources and journal articles in one easy-to-navigate Web-based product for students and general researchers. Completing this generous selection of material-many of which have never before been available in the U.S. - Consulta also includes more than 6,200 full-color photographs, maps and artwork.

Contemporary Women's Issues

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women's Issues records are indexed by 17 categories, including subject, region, article type and publication type.

CPI.Q

CPI.Q is the premier database of Canadian and international journals, magazines, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from the Gale Group. All with a Canadian focus, these articles represent a powerful tool for the Canadian researcher. Below is a complete listing of journals and periodicals within CPI.Q.

DialogClassic

DialogClassic is designed for information professionals who need high-speed access to classic Dialog and require quick response to their search queries. Searchers pointing their browsers to DialogClassic are connected to the Dialog mainframe Web server, providing them direct access to the extensive content and functionality of classic Dialog. This service is therefore a reliable, efficient alternative for users who access classic Dialog via telnet or third party communications software.

Content areas include, but are not limited to, aerospace, biomedical research, biotechnology, business and finance, chemicals, energy and environment, food and agriculture, government regulations, intellectual property, medicine, news and media, pharmaceuticals, reference, social sciences, and science and technology

Discovering Collection

Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements comprise the Discovering Collection comprehensive online reference resource. The database's intuitive interface and easy-to-navigate functionality make it effortless for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Unparalleled in its depth and scope, this premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration -- from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, Expanded Academic ASAP™ delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher -- all in one seamless search. Balanced coverage is available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included with your subscription.

Gale Ready Reference Shelf

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf uses the power of electronic searching to create an integrated resource that incorporates Gale's most popular general reference databases. Users can access more than 330,000 entries for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations and more. Gale's Ready Reference Shelf can be used to locate reference information on any subject, organization, publication, database or broadcast station.

General Business File ASAP

General BusinessFile ASAP™ is a fully international database designed to provide users with unparalleled access to:
  • 200,000 company profiles
  • More than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports
  • Late-breaking news and event coverage on companies, industries, products and executives
  • The latest in business theory, economics and favored practices

General Reference Center Gold

This resource center integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles to fully answer your patrons' reference questions -- all in a single database. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center Gold TMhas the full-text and image resources students and researchers need. Many articles provide links to related sources outside of the current article: reference books, magazine and newspaper articles.

General Reference Center Select

Designed especially for libraries with moderate user traffic. General Reference Center Select™ integrates a variety of full-text sources: the most well read general interest magazines and journals, reference books and newspaper articles. With its combined resources, this multisource database provides broader and deeper perspectives on a wide variety of topics -- from politics and money management to travel and consumer interest.

Health & Wellness Center Academic

This multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center™ plus 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals. All in a single, easy-to-use database, Health Reference Center -- Academic integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

History Resource Center: Modern World

History Resource Center: Modern World offers a virtual library of the resources needed to study world history within a flexible, comprehensive and convenient search tool.

Drawing on themes and trends from the current history curriculum and World History textbooks, Modern World provides coverage of the 20th century including:

  • China's Boxer Rebellion in 1900
  • Two world wars
  • The Cold War
  • Mass genocide
  • The rise and fall of Communism

History Resource Center: US

With its unique combination of primary and secondary sources, History Resource Center: U.S. places the tools of the historian in the hands of the student and general researcher. Award winning encyclopedias from Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale and Macmillan Reference USA coalesce with primary materials drawn from some of the world's most notable libraries via Primary Source Microfilm. This array of content types provides both depth and breadth and covers U.S. history from colonial times to the present.

INFORME

Expand your library's services to meet the needs of the growing Hispanic population in your community with ¡Informe!. Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users. ¡Informe! thinks through every query in Spanish.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. With Custom Newspapers, libraries are able to choose two or more titles from a growing list of more than 100 outstanding newspapers from around the world.

InfoTrac Junior Edition

Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac® Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions -- without lining up at your desk or waiting for titles out on loan.

InfoTrac Student Edition

Designed for secondary school students, InfoTrac® Student Edition is the quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions. Student Edition comprises a variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians prefer and students enjoy.

Investext Plus

A wealth of expert business information is an unmatched source of downloadable business reports over the Web -- featuring full access to The Investext Group's collection of investment research. Offering complete information and analysis from the experts, this database provides a breadth and quality of business data that can't be found anywhere else. It delivers instant, full-text reports in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. It also gives users the same research and analysis used at top investment banks, consulting firms and law firms to:
  • Monitor industry trends
  • Track company financials
  • Research merger and acquisition opportunities

Junior Reference Collection

The information in this combined online database enhances and encourages the education process by providing user-friendly tools for classroom research and independent study. With Junior Reference Collection, students have current, relevant, organized, easy-to-read information at their fingertips. The entries are thorough; in depth; and written in clear, concise terms at an appropriate reading level. Integrating several curriculum area content sets into one searchable database offers the benefit of searching five databases with a single query. Junior Reference Collection integrates the updated and award-winning content of these great U·X·L databases:
  • U·X·L Biographies 2.0
  • U·X·L Science
  • U·X·L Junior DISCovering Authors 2.0
  • U·X·L Junior Worldmark
  • U·X·L Multicultural
  • U·X·L Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd. Ed.

Kids InfoBits

Kids InfoBits targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content.

LegalTrac

LegalTrac ™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Literature Resource Center

The value of Literature Resource Center, 3.0 is enhanced by features not available from any print source, including:
  • More than 371,000 full-text journal articles from more than 230 literary journals
  • 38,000 critical essays
  • 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
  • More than 5,000 links to authoritative related Web sites
  • More than 122,000 author biographies
  • 2,500 author portraits
  • Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

Military and Intelligence Database

The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.

MLA International Bibliography on InfoTrac

The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.6 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Gale's MLA Bibliography offerings incorporate the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals. Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.

National Newspaper Index

National Newspaper Index™ gives you quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times (Late and National Editions); The Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western Editions); The Christian Science Monitor (National Edition); The Washington Post (Final Edition); and The Los Angeles Times (Home Edition).

Newsletters ASAP

Newsletters ASAP provides library researchers with the timely information and expert perspectives found in today's most well-read and respected business and industry newsletters. Some of the industries Newsletters ASAP covers include: advertising, marketing and public relations; general business; health and medicine; computers and office automation; food, beverages and nutrition; biotechnology; government and law; pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; and many more.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVRC's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks which allow students to explore each topic's many facets -- and exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information Plus reference program of statistics, government data, legislation and more.

Professional Collection Database

Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. The Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator:
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Child and Adolescent Psychology and Development
  • Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Health/Nutrition/Fitness
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Literature
  • School Law
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports/Athletic Training

PROMT

PROMT ® features abstracts and full text from international trade and business journals, industry newsletters, and newspapers, plus summaries from Investext® investment and brokerage firm reports. PROMT® is ideal for precisely locating information about market size and share, industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive opportunities.

RDS Tablebase

Now there's an easy way to find the tables users want and get the strategic data you need, when you need it. TableBase is the database that specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Featuring precise indexing, unambiguous table titles and links to full text, there's nothing like TableBase anywhere.

Science Resource Center

Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. The Science Resource Center reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including:
  • Earth Science
  • History of Science
  • Life Science
  • Physical Science
  • Science and Technology
  • Science as Inquiry
  • Space Science

Scribner Writers Series

Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays. The series is designed to work the way students conduct literary research, therefore, students can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers.

Student Resource Center Bronze

Student Resource Center is aimed at high school students. Each document type fulfills specific information needs. Students will find primary documents from the American Journey series and articles from curriculum related magazines and newspapers; a wealth of award-winning reference content that includes overview and critical essays; biographies, multimedia features and much more.

Student Resource Center College Edition

(Contains either Academic ASAP or Expanded Academic ASAP)  Student Resource Center -- College Edition offers current magazine and journal coverage from your choice of two full-text periodical databases: Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic ASAP. With up to 2,000 indexed titles, 1,000 full-text and 668 referred titles, these databases link to information and references on topics such as astronomy, economics, education, literature and art, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, political science, communications, the general sciences and more. The database also includes access to a growing collection of vocational and technical titles that will be expanded over time.

Student Resource Center Gold

Student Resource Center Gold is aimed at high school students. Each document type fulfills specific information needs. Students will find primary documents from the American Journey series and millions of articles from magazines and newspapers; a wealth of award-winning reference content that includes overview and critical essays; biographies; multimedia features and much more.

Student Resource Center Silver

Provide the content and context students need to develop and strengthen critical thinking skills with Student Resource Center Silver. Students and educators will find award-winning content based on national curriculum standards featuring original reference material, a massive archive of primary source documents and periodicals and newspapers that are updated daily.

Student Resource Center Health Module

The Student Resource Center-Health Module is a curriculum-oriented health database that provides a one-stop resource for all health research needs. The Health Module is an essential part of the Student Resource Center classroom reference solution and is fully integrated into the Student Resource Center Gold version.

The Student Resource Center-Health Module reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in high school classrooms, including:

  • Body systems
  • Diseases
  • Drugs
  • First aid
  • Current issues in health
  • Physical and emotional well-being

Student Resource Center Junior

Provide the content and context students need to develop and strengthen critical thinking skills with Student Resource Center Junior. Students and educators will find award-winning content based on national curriculum standards featuring original reference material, a massive archive of primary source documents and periodicals and newspapers that are updated daily.

Testing and Education Reference Center

This detailed database includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports and more.

Twayne's Authors Series

The acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

World Biographical Information System Online

Based on the digitization of Saur's well-known Biographical Archives, WBIS Online compiles biographical articles form reference works pertaining to a country or a specific language/cultural area.
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