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Gale (publisher)

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.

Parent company

1954 (1954) (as Gale Group)

U.S.

Primary sources, databases, e-books, e-learning, Thorndike Large Print

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public, academic, and school libraries, and businesses. The company is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history, and social science.


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.

Products[edit]

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 K–12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L.[12] Gale also owns large print publishers Christian Large Print and Wheeler Publishing.

published by Gale

Contemporary Authors

published by Gale

Dictionary of Literary Biography

published by Scribner's

Dictionary of the Middle Ages

published by Scribner's

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

published by Gale

Encyclopaedia Judaica

published by Gale

Encyclopedia of Associations

owned by Gale (inactive)

HighBeam Research

published by Gale

New Catholic Encyclopedia

(now defunct) owned by Gale

Questia Online Library

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Official website

Gale-owned sites and services