Gale offering free access to six resources for National Library Week
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is celebrating National Library Week by offering free access to six highly-praised online resources for use by any library during National Library Week. Free access...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan Library opens ECCO – Eighteenth Century Collections...
The University of Michigan Library is opening to the public 2,229 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). The texts are available to the public at no...
View ArticleWorldCat Local adds new databases and ebook collections
DUBLIN, Ohio, May 31, 2011—WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery service that offers users integrated access to more than 800 million items in libraries around the world, has added more databases and...
View ArticleGale releases new Classroom in Context resources to supplement textbooks
Farmington Hills, Mich., May 31, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced Classroom in...
View ArticleGale to launch National Geographic Virtual Library
Farmington Hills, Mich., June 20, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and the National Geographic...
View ArticleNational Geographic Virtual Library: What it includes and how to purchase it
Last week, Gale announced another expansion of its partnership with National Geographic with the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, the third resource in its multi-media...
View ArticleOCLC to index metadata and full text of all Gale databases and archives for...
Received this press release from OCLC today. The metadata and full text of ALL Gale databases and archives will be fully discoverable in WorldCat Local. This will be a great benefit to mutual...
View ArticleGale sets the stage for the launch of Artemis
According to the press release just received from Gale (see below), the company plans to bring together more than 130 million pages of its digital humanities content onto one platform. Artemis, the...
View ArticleGale metadata to be indexed in EBSCO Discovery Service
Big news today from EBSCO. They will begin to index the metadata from Gale databases, ebooks, and archival collections. More information, including the full list of Gale resources included in the...
View ArticleGale launches first Smithsonian Institution collection
Last February, Gale announced a large-scale Gale-Smithsonian Institution partnership to digitize content. Today, Gale announced the availability of the first product in the line - Air & Space and...
View ArticleGVRL adds 200 new children’s reference titles from Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nice to see new preK-6 content added to the GVRL interface, especially EB titles. Farmington Hills, Mich., October 23, 2013 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and...
View ArticleGale announces new Usage-Driven Acquisition model for GVRL
Earlier today Gale/Cengage announced a new business model for the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). The model is “Usage-Driven Acquisition” (UDA) and is based on evidence-based decisions – you...
View ArticleGale launches Career Online High School to public libraries for accredited...
Gale Partners with Career Online High School to Deliver Accredited High School Diploma Program through Public Libraries Nationwide Farmington Hills, Mich., January 9, 2014 —Gale, part of Cengage...
View ArticleGale expands products and services, STEM content added to GVRL
Gale hosted a webinar on the new products and services they have launched a couple weeks back, but I didn’t get to attend. Below is a press release summarizing some of those initiatives. Lots of new...
View ArticleCengage Learning emerges from Chapter 11, completes financial restructuring
Great news for Cengage Learning. The press release is below, or watch this video message from CEO, Michael Hansen. New York, NY – April 1, 2014 – Cengage Learning, Inc., a leading global educational...
View ArticleGale redesigns Kids InfoBits database
Below is a press release from Gale discussing the recent changes to the Kids InfoBits database. New interface features include: Social media sharing EasyBib integration and improved citation tools...
View ArticleGale adds four new STEM publishers to GVRL
Farmington Hills, Mich., October 8, 2014 — New content covering popular healthcare and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics is now available on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL),...
View ArticleGale offers content for data mining and textual analysis
Farmington Hills, Mich., November 17, 2014 — Recognizing the benefit of data analysis for the digital humanities field, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will make available content from its Gale Digital...
View ArticleGale launches Miss Humblebee’s Academy, an early literacy product for...
Farmington Hills, Mich., April 23, 2015 — Supporting public libraries’ life-long learning initiatives, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is pleased to announce Miss Humblebee’s Academy, a new early...
View ArticleGale Expands Relationship with Google and Discovery Services
Farmington Hills, Mich., June 22, 2015 — Evolving to meet researchers where they begin their searching, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is supporting discovery by working with Google to index...
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