Gale (publisher)
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| Parent company | Cengage |
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| Founded | 1954 (as Gale Group) |
| Founder | Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr.[1] |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | Farmington Hills, Michigan |
| Publication types | Primary sources, databases, e-books, e-learning, Thorndike Large Print |
| Official website | www |
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan,[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 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.
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 Scribner's Reference, Thorndike Press, Schirmer, Twayne Publishers, and G. K. Hall) from Pearson (which had acquired it from Simon & Schuster in 1998; Macmillan USA was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994).[4] In 2000 it acquired the Munich-based K. G. Saur Verlag,[5] but then sold it to Walter de Gruyter in 2006.[6]
On October 25, 2006, Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly divest the Thomson Learning division, because, in the words of Thomson CEO Richard Harrington, "it does not fit with our long-term strategic vision." Thomson has said that it expected this sale to generate approximately $5 billion. Thomson Learning was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for $7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007.[7]
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 K–12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L.[12] Gale also owns large print publishers Christian Large Print and Wheeler Publishing.
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 owned by Gale (inactive)
References
- ↑ Gale – Helping Libraries Prepare for the 21st Century – inforum.cz – Retrieved February 23, 2009
- ↑ "Privacy Statement and Terms of Use." Gale. Retrieved on July 8, 2010.
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- ↑ "Thomson Gale Part of Larger Sale" by Norman Oder, Library Journal, June 1, 2007
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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
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