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Associations Unlimited
Associations Unlimited combines data from the entire Encyclopedia of Associations series and includes additional IRS information on nonprofit organizations, for a total of more than 456,000 organizations. Its convenient modular format allows libraries to pay only for the modules they desire.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index is designed to help you easily determine which publication to consult for biographical information. Indexed sources cover both living and deceased persons from every field of activity and from every country in the world. Provides coverage of nearly 5 million contemporary and historical figures from authors to scientists, from boxers to fashion designers, from Adam and Eve to Frank Zappa.
ChiltonLibrary
This 24-hour on-call "mechanic" provides quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
Gale Academic OneFile
Connect students to the information they’re looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. This premier periodical resource provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Collection of scholarly journals and general interest titles that covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences.
Gale Business: Insights
Gale Business: Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.
While this global database is a valuable resource for students, Gale Business: Insights also offers relevant information to educate and accelerate the business activities of budding entrepreneurs, small business owners, financial planners, and established business professionals.
Encourage users at every level to explore a wide range of business content for career applications and academic learning in subjects like business management, economics, finance, marketing, and more.
An Enhanced Research Experience
Built on Gale’s intuitive and user-friendly platform, Gale Business: Insights offers unparalleled functionality to support efficient research. Provide your researchers with access to comprehensive business data organized in a logical, usable interface equipped with powerful search and analysis tools.
Upgraded functionality for Gale Business: Insights allows researchers to spend less time searching for the content they need and more time developing new insights and supporting practical business applications.
Gale Health and Wellness
Gale In Context: Biography
Discover the world’s most influential people with Gale In Context: Biography. Narrative biographies, new stories, and ultimedia content bring to life the historical figures, world leaders, sports stars, entertainers, scientists, and authors who have mpacted our world throughout history as well as those who are shaping our future.
Built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries, Gale In Context: Biography covers international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Over 5,000 curated biography pages on contemporary and historical figures that are continually updated, merging authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia. Search for people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
A similar user experience for all Gale products allows users to spend more time with content and less time learning navigation and tools.
Gale in Context: Elementary
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, geography, science and more—all in one place.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides students and researchers with comprehensive information to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities from a global perspective. With an intuitive interface and enhanced user experience, Environmental Studies lets users spend more time getting the content they need and less time learning navigation and tools.
Gale In Context: High School
Gale In Context: High School provides cross-curricular content on the most-studied topics in high school aligned with national and state curriculum standards. Users will find a vast array of resources for papers, projects, and presentations that bolster the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and effective communication skills.
Gale In Context: Literature
Designed with high school students in mind, Gale In Context: Literature provides context for literary classics and diverse new texts by using a robust multimedia collection of videos, images, infographics, eBooks, and more. This high-interest content is available in the user-friendly Gale In Context platform, complete with accessibility and navigation tools that ensure a seamless user experience. Spark greater interest in literature and inspire more-compelling class discussions when you connect your students to Literature.
Gale In Context: Literature helps students succeed by supplying the context they need to connect with the literature they’re studying—from canonical classics to diverse new voices. By providing students with resources that support a wide variety of texts, educators can facilitate meaningful interactions with literature that lead to improved learning outcomes.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Users will find a remarkable compilation of proven reference content integrated with the best multimedia available today. With its scope and depth, Opposing Viewpoints In Context supports virtually any curricular, academic or general-interest need. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Gale In Context: Science
ACCESS A BROAD RANGE OF QUALITY CONTENT
From climate change to genetically modified organisms to fracking, the wealth of content in Gale In Context: Science spans the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth and environmental science, health and medicine, and math and technology. Go beyond research projects and choose from over 350 experiments in 200 entries to assign during everyday instruction, enabling hands-on learning anywhere students have online access.
USE BUILT-IN SIMULATIONS
Access more than 330 interactive simulations to supplement classroom labs and engage students, allowing them to run a simulation, change the variables, and run it again to compare results—all in an online environment. Understand and explore varied concepts, like homeostasis, circuits, radioactive decay, chemical equations, force, energy, and more.
SUPPORT CURRENT TEACHING STANDARDS
Science departments have a unique need for up-to-date materials to support an ever-changing curriculum. The content supports Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by providing credible information from which students can draw their own conclusions.
NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
A similar user experience for all Gale In Context products allows users to spend more time with content and less time learning navigation tools.
Gale In Context: U.S. History
Draw students into the historical events that shaped our country. Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging online resource designed to support U.S. history studies by providing a thorough overview of our nation’s complex past—from wars and political movements to the individuals and cultural shifts that initiated them.
ACCESS COMPREHENSIVE CONTENT
Provide students extensive coverage of historical events. This collection contains millions of articles from periodicals and newspapers; hundreds of thousands of topic and event overviews; biographies; and rich multimedia, including images, videos, audio, and web links.
GAIN A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
Deliver an unparalleled look into the American experience. Students will have the power to explore a wide variety of topics ranging from the arrival of the Vikings in North America to the first shots of the Civil War and on through to the civil rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.
UTILIZE CLASSROOM-READY CONTENT
Pinpoint comprehensive media-rich collections to help learners evaluate content in diverse formats and enhance their critical thinking skills.
NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
Offer a user-friendly experience. This resource allows students more time with content and less time learning navigation tools.
Gale In Context: World History
Bring history to the forefront of your curriculum with Gale In Context: World History. This engaging online resource reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines, putting topical issues in context. Students will gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.
Gale LegalForms
Gale LegalForms provides a comprehensive look at various types of legal documents. LegalForms is the only electronic reference to offer legal forms that are truly state-specific. Many of the forms and documents are available in Word or Adobe format and can be edited and used with minor modifications to suit users' needs by simply "filling in the blanks" with relevant and accurate information. Completed sample forms are also included.
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues
The database offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Gale OneFile: News
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Gale OneFile: Psychology
Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Global Issues in Context
Ties together sources to present an analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots. It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
Literature Resource Center
The most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. It's materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers will find information on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines.
LitFinder
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
National Geographic for Kids
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space with this database for children ages 6 through 14. Browse the complete run of the National Geographic for Kids magazine, books, videos, and more.
National Geographic Virtual Library Magazine, 1888-Current
With comprehensive, timely articles and legendary photos, this award-winning magazine documents life on our planet and beyond. Provide your students with over one hundred years of history through articles on culture, global events, nature, science, technology, anthropology, geography, and the environment, as well as gripping first-person accounts of epic exploration and discovery.
National Geographic Virtual Library People, Animals, and the World
With comprehensive, timely articles and legendary photos, this award-winning magazine documents life on our planet and beyond. Provide your students with over one hundred years of history through articles on culture, global events, nature, science, technology, anthropology, geography, and the environment, as well as gripping first-person accounts of epic exploration and discovery.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of nearly 250 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2024. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context.
Read by both world leaders and the general public, the Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication.
Beginning in 1986, the Times expanded its sports and cultural coverage with the increase of weekend supplements, giving the researcher of today even broader insight into our modern world.
The introduction of full-color imaging from 2022 onwards, a first for The Times Digital Archive, brings even more clarity to The Times’ path-breaking photojournalism.
The archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, philosophy, and numerous other subjects with coverage of all major international historical events.
Twayne's Authors
Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.