| By Gale Staff | For more than 20 years, Gale has pioneered the application of powerful optical character recognition (OCR) technology to create some of the world’s largest and most widely researched digital archives. With OCR, you can quickly turn a printed text into a searchable document. Read the Q&A below with Gale senior … Read more
| By Gale Staff | In April 2023, we will be launching a new platform that can be used to access British Literary Manuscripts. The platform will be available in addition to the current platform for several more months, until there’s a hard cutover this June, after which only the new platform will be available. … Read more
| By Lucy Dow, Associate Acquisitions Editor at Gale, part of Cengage Group | Among perhaps the lesser-known contributions of women in the early twentieth century was their critical role in advancing the labor movement in North America, fighting for issues such as wage equality, employee benefits, and workplace safety. These concerns resonate in our … Read more
| By Dr. Sarah Ketchley, Senior Digital Humanities Specialist | This November, I was fortunate to join the team of Dr. Donald P. Ryan’s Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings project on the West Bank in Luxor, Egypt, whose focus during the 2022 dig season was tomb clearance and accessibility work. My visit coincided … Read more
| By Bria Cole, Associate Product Manager | We’re excited to announce enhancements to Gale Literature cross search, including new topic pages for every institution regardless of Gale Literature holdings. The new topic pages will be available starting Friday, December 16, 2022, and cover a range of diverse literary topics, authors, and works. Topic pages serve … Read more
|By Dr. Sarah Ketchley, Senior Digital Humanities Specialist| As an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington, I have been working with cohorts of students for over a decade in the field of digital humanities. My area of research expertise is Egyptology, specifically the disciplinary history of the field in the late nineteenth and … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale has been at the forefront of supporting digital scholarship for many years. Over the past decade, we have worked with the academic community to understand the use of Gale Primary Sources in text- and data-mining projects, and the common challenges they face. We developed Gale Digital Scholar Lab in … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Shanghai University has acquired Gale Scholar, opening up new possibilities for research and study using the expansive content and powerful search technologies of Gale Primary Sources. The resources are available to nearly 58,000 students across the university’s three campuses. The university also purchased Gale Digital Scholar Lab (the Lab), as … Read more
| By Gale Staff | The U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, prompted by President Donald Trump after his loss in the 2020 presidential election, and the subsequent trials of President Trump’s supporters and right-wing militia group leaders accused of committing criminal activities, including those of rioters who committed violent attacks on Capitol police during the … Read more
| By Gale Staff | From a contemporary Western perspective, it’s easy to take for granted our democracy and basic freedoms, since for most Americans our current form of government is all we’ve ever known. But what happens when your democracy is threatened in its infancy—just 31 years after your country manages to break away … Read more