Strengthen Connections through Content

With Gale Research Complete, accessing the largest digital bundle of primary and secondary scholarly sources is just a subscription (and library account) away. Users at all academic levels—from undergraduates to experienced researchers—will benefit from high-quality, authoritative, and unique sources covering nearly every research area and discipline at a price point that’s sustainable for the average academic library budget. 

Get the most comprehensive, affordable collection of scholarly resources specifically designed for university research, teaching, and learning that only Gale databases can deliver. Gale Research Complete offers academic institutions a deep well of content, including proprietary databases, award-winning eBooks, scholarly articles, and rare primary sources that enhance research, learning, and discovery at the university level and beyond. Plus, with the new cross search experience, users can simultaneously search across all Gale Research Complete resources* to discover the content they need.

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  • Expand Paths to Research & Learning

    Just how much scholarly material will students and researchers uncover using Gale Research Complete? Access to databases containing millions of pages of primary sources, proprietary e-reference, and periodical content brings with it the potential to streamline and shape library research activities for users at all academic levels. 

    Students and researchers will also have the chance to engage with titles indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)—including quality periodicals, academic journals; plus eBooks, literary criticism and full-text literary works, and additional content from the vaults of the world’s most celebrated libraries. This quality and depth of information is available in Gale’s largest and best-value single subscription to date, equipped with intuitive search tools specifically designed to empower visual learners.
  • Offer an Enhanced Experience

    The new Gale Research Complete home page streamlines the search experience, provides research guidance, and offers more paths for users to find and access the resources they need.

    The cross search enhancement enables users to search all the databases in Gale Research Complete* with a unified basic search bar and provides advanced search options, including limiting searches to select resources or specific content types. Discover topic and work portals, literature criticism, journals, magazines, news, eBooks, primary sources, business profiles, market research, and more in a single set of search results organized in intuitive panel displays.

    Students and researchers can also access additional tools and features that facilitate efficient research, like video tutorials designed to help them select research topics and learn how to use platform-level tools.
  • Discover the Benefits of Gale Research Complete

    Gale’s proprietary databases and primary sources come together in a subscription model that allows Gale Research Complete to deliver a truly unique offering designed to help academic libraries:

    • Democratize access to information and research resources, including journal articles, eBooks, and other special collections to meet the needs of diverse learning communities. 
    • Support online, hybrid, and in-person teaching and learning with relevant digital library resources, tools, and services.
    • Forge new pathways to discovery and library resource integration into research projects and classroom instruction. 
    • Meet equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives across campus and the curriculum with relevant interdisciplinary content.
    • Build connections between library investments and student outcomes, including academic performance, skill development, and career readiness.

    Find more insights for teaching and learning with Gale Research Complete >>

    *Cross search excludes partner databases.

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Gale Research Complete Content Highlights

Gale Academic OneFile

Connect students to the information they’re looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. This premier periodical resource provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.

Gale General OneFile

Our largest general-interest periodical resource allows users to find the information they want quickly, with intuitive searching that ensures they tap into quality sources.

Gale In Context

Access premier digital content. Current, authoritative, media-rich information—you’ll find it in the Gale In Context suite of online resources, which meets the needs of today’s learners with a user-friendly, mobile-responsive design. 

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: Entrepreneurship

Mapped to four key business stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—this resource covers all major areas of starting and operating a business. Now integrated with Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools.

Gale Health and Wellness

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.

Gale Literature

Gale Literature is an integrated research experience that brings together Gale’s premier literary databases. This unique digital environment allows researchers of all levels to find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information.

Gale Literature Criticism

Discover a new path to literature. Gale Literature Criticism is an integrated research experience that brings together Gale’s premier literary databases.

Gale Literature: Something About the Author

Examine the lives and works of writers and illustrators for children and young adults. This critically acclaimed series has more than 28,000 entries that include award-winning and emerging artists, and provides illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 75 children’s writers and illustrators per volume.

Gale Directory Library

A customizable collection of 23 digital directories that allows users to easily search, sort, export, and analyze content across the platform based on the information needs of their customers. Essential for business research and marketing, popular titles include Ward’s Business Directory, Brands and Their Companies, and Encyclopedia of Associations.

Gale eBooks

Offer your users an award-winning, hassle-free eBook experience—anytime, anywhere, and on any device. The Gale eBook platform provides comprehensive support from many of today’s top publishers. 

Archives Unbound

This collection provides a multidisciplinary archive of materials to explore the region’s diplomatic initiatives, military actions, politics, economics, and natural resources.

Platform Features & Tools

Integrated Workflow Tools

User-generated tags and annotations, Zotero compatability, and user accounts allow researchers to easily collect, cite, and group sources, tags, and annotations.

On-demand Translation

Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages. 

Citation Tools

Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, formatted citations can be easily imported from single or multiple documents to services like EasyBib or NoodleTools. MLA-, APA-, and Chicago-style citations are supported.

Gale Research Complete provides affordable subscription access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources for research available to academic libraries today. Discover how access to Gale’s proprietary databases, award-winning reference materials, and unique primary source collections in one convenient package is democratizing learning for students across the curriculum. 

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