Exploring the Forbidden Archives

| By Phil Virta | Mention the word “sex” while you’re chatting with anyone and you’re likely to get a variety of responses from rational to emotional to visceral depending on whom you are speaking to. “Did you just say ‘sex’?”  [Lewd laughter] “I’m so embarrassed right now that I’m blushing.” “Ewwww!”  “Are you some … Read more

Assessing the User Experience on Gale Products

|By Heather Hedden | As senior vocabulary editor, I’ve worked on editing the Gale Subject thesaurus since we’ve had a web interface for our databases in the late 1990s, and there have been so many changes since then. The web user interface of Gale database products is key to making the research databases usable and … Read more