Gale has been shortlisted for the Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year by The Bookseller. Read more.
Talk by Dr Adrian Ailes and Dr Katy Mair, Record Specialists in Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew.
Thursday 8 March 2012, 2pm, The National Archives, Kew . Click here for details
New GVRL interface released
We're pleased to announce that with the help of extensive customer feedback
and market research, we have recently released a new version of the much-loved
Gale Virtual Reference Library. This new platform is freely available and
offers a significantly enhanced virtual experience.
Find out more about the new interface.
On Stand 368 at Online Information 2011, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is unveiling the all new The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006. Adding 20 years to the ground-breaking, highly popular 1785-1985 edition, the new publication offers researchers nearly 70,000 issues and more than 11 million articles on the cross-searchable Gale NewsVault platform. Also coming to NewsVault is the complete run of The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006, to be released in Spring 2012.
Gale, part of global publisher Cengage Learningis celebrating having won
the Besterman/McColvin Award in the ‘Outstanding works of electronic
resources and e-books’ category for The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003, at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ (CILIP) ISG Reference Awards (www.cilip.org.uk/isg).
Enhanced InfoTrac user interface
Gale has added new search features — including Search Assist, search filters, additional limiters and enhanced relevancy — to the
InfoTrac product range.
Learn more about these exciting new developments
Fourth and final part of State Papers Online launches
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, working in collaboration with The National Archives, is releasing the fourth and final part of State Papers Online, 1509-1714 completing a series which offers students and researchers unprecedented access to documents covering the full range of the Tudor and Stuart governments’ domestic and foreign activities.
Click here to read more
New portal topics added to Global Issues in Context this month
Gale add new portal topics to
Global Issues in Context every single month, ensuring that students and researchers alike have access to the latest up-to-date information on the most topical events and developments around the world. This month's new topics include Arab Spring, Bioethics, and Organised Crime. In addition to this, more than 15% of all portal overviews are updated each week. Learn more about
Global Issues in Context and the
Gale Knowledge Portals
The Economist Historical Archive has never looked so good!
As part of our ongoing commitment to serve the needs of libraries, Gale has made some product enhancements to the
Economist Historical Archive with the aim of streamlining the search experience and providing libraries with the reporting tools they need to assess the impact of the archive in their library.
See for yourself what the archive will look likeLibrary Journal gives Gale NewsVault "10 out of 10"
Read Library Journal's review praising the newly released Gale NewsVault platform here
Enhanced search functionality coming soon to InfoTrac
Gale is adding new search features —
including Search Assist, search filters, additional limiters and
enhanced relevancy —to the InfoTrac periodical solutions user interface. Learn more here
Gale joins Twitter
Keep up-to-date with all of the latest news and title releases from Gale EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) by following us on Twitter. Visit: http://twitter.com/GaleEMEA
Three new French Collections added to Archives Unbound
We have added three new and exciting French language collections to our growing list of Archive Unbound titles. The collections: Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848 , Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers and French Royal Acts, 1256-1794 are our first collections comprised entirely in the French language, with more to follow in the near future. Learn more in English and in French
Gale NewsVault: 400 years of newspapers and periodicals – now live!
Gale NewsVault
delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale’s
range of historical newspaper collections. Users can simultaneously
search or browse across the
Times Digital Archive, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, the
Financial Times Historical Archive, 19th Century US Newspapers, and many more. Providing
access to over 10 million digitized facsimile pages,
Gale NewsVault provides an unparalleled window to the past. Read more information on our
cross-searchable newspaper platform here
New Study Skills titles added to e-Textbook Collections
Cengage Learning is delighted to announce the addition of 10
best-selling Study Skills titles to the Cengage Learning e-Textbook
Collections
For the first time key textbooks are made available to
libraries online, at affordable prices and with no concurrent user
restrictions. The Cengage Learning e-Textbook Collections ensure that your
students have anytime, anywhere access to carefully selected core e-textbooks
whilst saving you valuable shelf space and relieving the pressure on shore loan
collections. Learn more about the Cengage Learning e-Textbook Collections here.
State Papers Online Part III
Marking the 350th anniversary of the Restoration of the British Monarchy, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, unveils today
State Papers Online Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714. The collection is the third of a four-part digital series that enables researchers and students to examine Tudor and Stuart government and society through thousands of historical manuscripts preserved by The National Archives in Kew. State Papers Domestic for the Stuart era (1603-1714) charts national affairs during one of the most dramatic periods of revolution and upheaval in Britain’s history. Researchers can find a wealth of primary source documents on such pivotal events as the Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars (1642-51), the trial and execution of Charles I (1649), the rule of Cromwell, the Restoration of the British Monarchy (1660), and the ‘Glorious Revolution’ (1688-9).
For more information
click here
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
160 years of remarkable pictorial coverage of all aspects of culture, politics and society in Britain and abroad from
The Illustrated London News is now available through an easy-to-use, convenient digital format. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, in collaboration with Illustrated London News Limited, is releasing The
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003, offering students, historians and researchers online access to the complete run of this unique publication, from its first issue on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. For more information
click here
The Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers – free online
The largest single online collection of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries – the Burney Collection - is now available free of charge for the first time to Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils across the UK.
The Burney Collection offers unique insights into two centuries of history through access to over 1,270 newsbooks, newspapers, pamphlets and a variety of other news materials published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Digitised through a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the British Library, and then developed and hosted online by Gale/Cengage Learning, the digital version of the Burney Collection has been purchased in perpetuity by JISC Collections on behalf of the UK academic and research community at a national level following an open and transparent procurement process.
For more information
click here
