Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Suite Is a Must-Have

| By Gale Staff | Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep combines Peterson’s Test Prep and Peterson’s Career Prep to offer patrons and students a full-service resource for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting college and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, exploring career paths, and more. From the high school or community college student … Read more

Studying Pandemic Literature

| By Jennifer Stock, Sr. Content Developer | As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, many people looked to the past to try to make sense of how this disease has affected us and how our predecessors made it through similarly difficult times. In the earliest months of 2020, numerous media outlets ran stories … Read more

New Titles Added to Gale OneFile Collections

Gale Academic OneFile Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed Acta Germanica: German Studies in Africa (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed Acta Juridica (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed African Journal for Physical Activity and Health Sciences (AJPHES) (Sabinet Online) Peer-reviewed African Journal of Democracy and … Read more

Gale Digital Scholar Lab Gets a New Look Later This Year!

| By Gale Staff | Since Gale Digital Scholar Lab launched in 2018, the team has engaged with librarians, instructors, and students about what they’d like to see in the tool and how they use it for research, teaching, and learning. Based on those continuous conversations, the team regularly makes improvements to the user experience. … Read more

Speech, Language, and Hearing Activities Added to Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy

| By Gale Staff | Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy combines interactive 3D models, guided activity sessions, contextual reference content, and formative assessment to create an engaging learning experience for anatomy students. Now we’ve added 16 new sessions to Human Anatomy, focusing on the speech, language, and hearing systems—essential content for all students, but of special … Read more

Open Web Entry Paves the Way for Increased Discoverability

| By Gale Staff | Traditionally, to access Gale products, users first need to log in or otherwise be recognized by a subscribing institution or library. This is known as authentication. Think of authentication as a front door. It’s the beginning of the experience, and you can’t see or know anything about the product without … Read more

New Job Search Engine Added to Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep and Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

| By Gale Staff | Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep and Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep help job seekers create resumés, get career advice, and now, make finding job opportunities easier! To help patrons more easily search job listings, access to the LinkUp job search engine has been integrated. Cited by U.S. News … Read more

COMING SOON! New Program Helps Public Libraries Expand Their Education Mission and Change Lives through Learning

| By Angela Doolin, Gale Product Manager | There are 30 million Americans without a high school diploma, meaning better-paying jobs and a college education can be out of reach.1 As a trusted partner to public libraries, Gale understands the importance of access to education, particularly for underserved and at-risk populations. Over the last seven … Read more

Queer Studies Takes Center Stage in a New Volume of Shakespearean Criticism

| By Rebecca Parks, Senior Content Developer, Gale, a Cengage Company | The highlight of my 2018 vacation to London was attending a performance of The Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theater. For those of you who have never been there, the current Globe is a reproduction of the original Globe Theater built … Read more

Claressa Shields: Fight Like a Girl

It’s difficult to overstate what an amazing athlete Claressa Shields is. Based on her accomplishments, she should be a household name. But many people haven’t heard of her because women’s boxing doesn’t get the recognition and respect it deserves, either inside or outside of the ring. So, let’s get acquainted with Shields: She won her … Read more