| By Jessica McIntosh | COVID-19 has thrown the world into a seemingly never-ending storm. Continuous conversation about societal shifts, the “Great Resignation,” and changes in education are heard daily. This constant communication has trickled down to impact individuals on a level we haven’t seen in decades. And now these changes have become personal. After … Read more
| By Tara Atterberry | In 1922, husband and wife acrobats and German citizens Eric and Alma Phillip sailed from Bremen, Germany to New York City aboard the passenger ship S.S. Seydlitz. They intended to make a new home in North America. More than 1,200 other passengers from Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, the … Read more
Gale Academic OneFile AIMS Bioengineering (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Mathematics (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IJAE) (Computer Science Journals) Peer-reviewed International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM) (Computer Science Journals) Peer-reviewed International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL) (Computer Science Journals) Peer-reviewed International Journal of Software Engineering (IJSE) (Computer … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | Alex Haley and Zora Neale Hurston. Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. James Baldwin and James Weldon Johnson. The literature of Black Americans reveals a rich tapestry of lives and experiences, one that is celebrated around the globe all the way back to 1773, when British allies published a book of … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Just six months after the close of the last Olympic Games, the Winter Olympics will officially begin with the opening ceremonies today. Also known as Beijing 2022, the much-anticipated event will take place with eager spectators around the world watching and cheering from home. While a select group of people … Read more
With more than 22 million citations, the Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) is the most comprehensive electronically searchable index of its kind. Available on the Gale Directory Library platform, BGMI’s simple user interface allows users to quickly locate biography content, including primary and variant names, birth, and death years, and index citations for over … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | February is Black History Month, and one of Gale In Context: Biography’s family of reference titles, Contemporary Black Biography, has been delivering in-depth profiles of global leaders in politics, the arts, sports, and other fields of achievement for nearly 30 years. An incomparable resource for students, teachers, and all lifelong … Read more
| By Matt Cordon | Those who contributed to the fourth edition of the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law (GEAL) are celebrating its upcoming release. Creating GEAL was unforgettable, given that we were actively writing or revising the entries when the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. The pandemic caused us to delay the completion of our work by … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner | Viruses are constantly undergoing mutation. Genetic mutations, most commonly a set of multiple mutations, produce different viral strains or variants. As we begin 2022, nearing the start of the third year of a global pandemic, the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 disease, is spreading rapidly … Read more
Gale Academic OneFile AIMS Agriculture and Food (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Biophysics (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Energy (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Environmental Science (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Geosciences (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Medical Science (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Microbiology (AIMS Press) Peer-reviewed AIMS Molecular Science (AIMS Press) … Read more