Gale (publisher)
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Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States,[2] west of Detroit. It has been a division of Cengage since 2007.
The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for
Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr., the company was acquired by the International Thomson Organization (later the Thomson Corporation) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage.
History
In 1998, Gale Research merged with Information Access Company and Primary Source Media, two companies also owned by Thomson, to form the Gale Group. Thomson has acquired Information Access Company (publisher of InfoTrac) in 1995 and Primary Source Media (formerly named Research Publications) in 1979.[3]
In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Macmillan Library Reference (including
On October 25, 2006, Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly
Patrick C. Sommers was president of Gale from October 22, 2007,[8] until he retired in 2010.
Products
Gale produces hundreds of products, such as Gale Academic OneFile,[9] Biography and Genealogy Master Index,[10] General OneFile, General Reference Center, Sabin Americana (based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana), and World History Collection.[11]
Gale print imprints include the reference brands Primary Source Media, Scholarly Resources Inc., Schirmer Reference, St. James Press, The TAFT Group and Twayne Publishers, among others. Five Star Publishing is Gale's fiction imprint, with hundreds of books in print in the Western, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy genres. Gale also sells into the
See also
- Contemporary Authors published by Gale
- Dictionary of Literary Biography published by Gale
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Scribner's
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography published by Scribner's
- Encyclopaedia Judaica published by Gale
- Encyclopedia of Associations published by Gale
- HighBeam Research owned by Gale (inactive)
- New Catholic Encyclopedia published by Gale
- Questia Online Library (now defunct) owned by Gale
References
- ^ Gale – Helping Libraries Prepare for the 21st Century – inforum.cz – Retrieved February 23, 2009
- ^ "Privacy Statement and Terms of Use". Gale. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ProQuest 206804972. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ^ Hane, Paula J. (1999-06-21). "Thomson's Gale Group Acquires MacMillan Library Reference USA". Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- ^ The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition – Reed Elsevier. Archived 2015-10-30 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Chronologie des K. G. Saur Verlags" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Thomson Gale Part of Larger Sale" by Norman Oder, Library Journal, June 1, 2007
- ^ "Cengage Learning Names Patrick C. Sommers President of Gale". Archived from the original on 2007-12-29. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ "Databases: Academic OneFile". Austin TX: University of Texas Libraries. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014.
- ^ "eReviews: Biography: Biography and Genealogy Master Index", Library Journal, April 15, 2012,
BGMI is a throwback to another era
- ^ Cengage Learning. "Database Title Lists". Gale: Title Lists. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ "Gale". Retrieved 6 February 2013.
External links
Gale-owned sites and services
- Gale Directory Library (Archived 2017-09-30 at the Wayback Machine) – dozens of print directories on a digital platform.
- Books & Authors – indexed database of fiction and nonfiction book titles