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Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including family, and marital issues, and more.
PLEX: Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century
One of the first digital archives on political groups, exploring the development, actions, and ideologies behind in the twentieth century. Material has been sourced from various locations, including The Searchlight Archive, UK Home Office, and Security Service files.
ASG: History and Culture Since 1940, Part I
A unique, fully searchable collection that brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources, enabling students, educators, and researchers to thoroughly explore and make new connections in subjects such as history, psychology, sociology, health, and more.
Collection of journals that explores contributions and influences in the global community.
ASG: Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
This collection contains approximately one million pages of primary source materials that were locked away for many years, available only via restricted access. With a date range of 1600–1940, this major collection of rare and unique material is available to support students, researchers, and faculty who study medicine, biology, anthropology, law, the classics, art, and literature.
ASG: History and Culture Since 1940, Part II
Fully searchable periodicals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, an international selection of posters, and other primary source materials for this milestone digital program were selected by an advisory board consisting of leading scholars and librarians.
Gale Literature: Book Review Index
With access to more than 5.6 million book reviews, patrons can use this index to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. This unique product is OpenURL compliant, which allows subscribers to link to full-text reviews from other sources.
Offer a fun, inviting, and safe environment to help parents and caregivers prepare children ages three to six for kindergarten proficiency. Miss Humblebee’s Academy includes thousands of online and offline activities, including printables and practice worksheets, to support kindergarten readiness and introduce young learners to key academic concepts.
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
Offers biographical information on a diverse range of more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors’ comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Covering all major areas of starting and operating a business, offer authoritative periodical and reference content and nearly 1,000 sample business plans developed by real-life entrepreneurs. The online resource is organized into four key business stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to help users find the content they need on financing, operations, marketing, and more.
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and writers throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text literary works and over 800,000 poetry citations as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Users can easily target the information they’re looking for with refined search options.
Whether a lifestyle change, homework assignment, or passing interest, Gale Health and Wellness offers reliable health information—now with user experience enhancements, collaboration tools, and mobile optimization.
Presents discerning commentary on dramatic works of enduring interest and introduce researchers to the most frequently studied playwrights of all time periods and nationalities.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center is a research-focused, one-stop literary destination, providing students, academics, and researchers authoritative and relevant results on demand.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2024*
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-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2024.
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896–2021*
This collection offers access to 125 years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society, providing an important alternative perspective to other newspapers such as the Times (London).
The Independent Historical Archive, 1986–2021*
The Independent Historical Archive, 1986–2021 covers the full run of the newspaper from its very first issue until 2021. Through an intuitive interface and multiple search paths, users can search, retrieve, and browse every article, page, and edition of the newspaper, gaining insight into this crucial period of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture and society and how the media represented it.
Women's Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities
This archive collection traces the path of women’s issues from past to present—pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more.
The first module in The Making of Modern Law to focus on British colonial legal history, this collection brings together more than a century of acts, ordinances, and proclamations passed in British colonies, spanning the entirety of the Crown’s jurisdictions, and charts the development of the legal systems in those territories, many of which still prevail today.
The American Civil War: The International Context
The American Civil War: The International Context demonstrates the involvement of European nations in the American Civil War, including their internal discussions, reactions to approaches from Unionists and Confederates, the challenges and advantages the American conflict brought, and its impact on politics and society.