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Strengthening communities through essential content

Statewide programs can lean on Gale to provide digital resources that are easy to find, digest, and understand, appealing to a wide range of learning styles. Digital resources from Gale bring more continuity to learners throughout their educational journey, and beyond.

  • Seamlessly work between databases. All of this functionality helps statewide programs to make the most of their investments with an extensive collection of collaborative learning resources.
  • Benefit from Cengage Group's content development philosophy. 
  • Promote accessibility to all learners. The ability to translate documents helps English language learners read, understand, and utilize content in their native language that would otherwise be inaccessible. With adjustable font size—including the dyslexic font and text to speech capabilities— statewide programs can discover a variety of digital learning solutions designed to meet the needs of all communities in a flexible learning environment.

 

Delivering exceptional support to our customers

At Gale, customer service is top priority. Statewide programs can expect a high level of collaboration and customer support in technology, training, and marketing. As a complement to these services, there’s a variety of on-demand e-Resources on the Gale support site to explore, including helpful product information, training materials, marketing materials, technical documents, and more, covering a complete list of learning solutions.

  • Working with state customers to build program awareness. Gale marketing works with statewide programs to help spread the word about access to Gale’s digital resources. Customizable marketing materials are also available for member libraries on support.gale.com.
  • Maximize investment in learning. Customers can access tools to manage, use, and promote Gale resources. Direct URLs and MARC records simplify access, customized Gale Pages improve resource discovery, and promotional materials make it easy to reach new learners.

 

A dedicated Customer Success Manager provides a single point of contact to help librarians discover support materials, develop web pages, use data analysis and institutional reporting, and deliver presentations. Gale Training Consultants provide customers with on-demand training materials, resource guides, tip sheets, video tutorials, upcoming and recorded webinars, training decks, projects, scavenger hunts and more. Customer Success Manager, Gale Training Consultants and the Gale Technical Support team are available to administrators by phone or email.

See if you have access.

You may already have access to Gale digital resources through your statewide database program or digital public library. If you’re not sure, you can check from our Statewide Resources page.

Meet the needs of patrons and students

Gale digital resources deliver engaging, community-critical content to libraries, including databases in key areas:

 

Online Learning and Upskilling

Patrons can continuously grow their skill sets through a curriculum designed to set them up for success. These free electronic resources play an important role in shaping informed and skilled citizens.

Our e-Resources include:

Gale Presents: Udemy

Connect your patrons to thousands of on-demand video courses across 75 different categories to help them build skills for their current role or prepare for a new one. Courses are taught by world-class instructors.

Gale Courses

Support personal and professional learners with access to over 360 online courses available 24/7. Classes are six weeks long, with new ones beginning each month.

 

Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

Digital exam and career prep resources can help students and users be better prepared down the road for both college and their career. 

 

ChiltonLibrary

Deliver reliable automotive solutions online 24/7 through ChiltonLibrary, trusted by automotive enthusiasts and professionals for more than 100 years. The database includes step-by-step service and repair procedures.

Business Resources

Offering Gale digital resources to your small business community can have a positive effect on your local economy. Access to free legal e-Resources, templates, information, and online planning tools can incentivize entrepreneurs and business owners to expand and grow.

Our e-Resources include:

Gale Business: Insights

Gale Business Insights delivers comprehensive business intelligence for connecting data to practical applications. Access daily updates and periodicals with this upgraded global database. 

Gale Business: Plan Builder

This highly intuitive online planning resource—complete with the information and tools needed to move through the entire business development life cycle—
is ideal for starting, managing, and optimizing a business.

Gale LegalForms

Gale LegalForms covers a wide selection of essential state-specific legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. Many forms are ideal for supporting legal tasks relevant to business owners.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Our comprehensive database covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It includes nearly 1,000 sample business plans.

Multidisciplinary Research

Discover a wealth of current, authoritative, media-rich information, plus curriculum-aligned materials to support community education and distance learning. This rich collection of interdisciplinary content reinforces critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and more.

Our e-Resources include:

Gale OneFile

Take advantage of a premier periodical database that puts many of the world’s leading journals, newspapers, magazines, and more right at your user’s fingertips.

Gale Academic OneFile

Gale Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.

Gale In Context

Each subject-specific resource uses eye-catching topic overview pages to bring together nonfiction materials in all digital formats. 

Gale eBooks

Offer users an award-winning, hassle-free eBook experience—anytime, anywhere, and on any device. 
 

STEAM

Add more value to an educator’s classroom curriculum with on-demand Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) educational resources. They make e-learning fun for everyone with access to high-quality information and tools that complement classroom instruction in STEAM-related subjects.

Our e-Resources include:

National Geographic Virtual Library: National Geographic Kids

Engage kids and young students to broaden their educational horizons with reputable, special, authoritative, and age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they have never seen before.

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Connect student researchers with hundreds of topic pages featuring articles, case studies, statistics, and images from national and global publications.

Gale Interactive

Dive deep into science concepts with Gale Interactive, a visual tool that helps instructors teach complex topics in biology, chemistry, human anatomy, and earth/space science. Interactive tools allow users to zoom, rotate, and explore 3D models to engage with science beyond static text.