What is the Gale Scholar program?

Access to authoritative content is essential to academic research. Gale Primary Sources give researchers the means to discover new insights quickly and effectively. For nearly two decades, we have been preserving and extending access to scholarly research materials through our groundbreaking digitization program, creating the world’s largest selection of rare and unique digital archives.

With the Gale Scholar Program, universities can enhance their current holdings with unique primary sources that have been core to the collection-building strategies of institutions around the world.

These valuable and critically acclaimed resources cover books, maps, photographs, newspapers, periodicals, manuscript and other materials from the world’s great libraries. The program includes highly-coveted titles covering diverse subjects from the 15th century to the present day.

 

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Featured Archives

ARCHIVES UNBOUND

Since its inception in 2009, the Archives Unbound program has published more than 230 titles, scanning microfilm collections from across the globe to support targeted research on specialist topics.

GALE DIGITAL SCHOLAR LAB

By integrating an unmatched depth and breadth of digital primary source matter with the most popular DH tools, Gale Digital Scholar Lab provides a new platform to generate original and innovative research.

Which Archives can be Included in Gale Scholar?

Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society

View an extensive collection of amateur publications that were written, edited, and published primarily by young people, aged 12-20, during the second half of the 19th century. This one-of-a-kind archive features tens of thousands of issues, and includes editorials, original short fiction, essays, poetry, and more.

American Fiction, 1774-1920

Explore the development of American literature in a changing culture through novels, short stories, romance, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Parts I-VI

This archive contains nearly 200 titles, starting in the Colonial era and moving through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and into the twentieth century. While the major issues are covered, the periodicals included go beyond general history into topics ranging from arts to industry.
 

Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Help academic scholars continue to make new connections in LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, literature, psychology, health, political science, gender history, and other related disciplines, with the largest historical collection available in support of gender and sexuality studies. 

Associated Press Collections Online

For more than 170 years, the Associated Press (AP) has delivered the news when and where it occurs. Together, the AP and Gale are making previously unseen news copy and footage available digitally to tell the stories of our past in vivid detail.
 

British Library Newspapers

Consisting of five parts, this series forms one of the largest collections of regional newspapers from the UK, providing an alternative voice to the major national newspapers. This project has digitized titles from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, providing over 200 years of rare documents.

British Literary Manuscripts Online

This unique collection provides an intimate look into the lives and works of more than one thousand authors and delivers insights into the culture and context surrounding centuries of British literary achievement.

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture

Originally the personal library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian, and journalist Manoel de Oliveira Lima, the Oliveira Lima Library has long been regarded as one of the finest collections of the Luso-Brazilian materials available to scholars.  It's now accessible for students, educators, and researchers alike to delve deeper into Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Chatham House Online Archive

Containing close to 90 years of high-level analysis and research on global events and issues from the leader in policy research on international affairs, this searchable online file archive brings expert knowledge in international affairs directly to the desktops of researchers and students.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice.

Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896–2016*

This collection offers access to more than 100 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).

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library supports comparative approaches to the study of the Middle East and the Muslim world and inspires original research on Islamic religion, history, language, literature, and science.  It is an essential resource for every major library needing Arabic primary source material for research, teaching, and learning.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800.

The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020

The Economist is the definitive source for business and policy leaders, opinion shapers, and decision makers. Accordingly, this collection proves the ideal historical resource for researching cutting-edge ideas in a convenient format. Gale's digital technology delivers fully searchable news, supplements, advertisements, and letters that let researchers compare political and economic trends across continents and conduct credible research into the great events of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021*

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010 is an essential, comprehensive, and unbiased research tool for those studying public affairs and economic and financial history from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

This archive consists of over 1.3 million pages of archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.

Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

When first launched in 1842, the Illustrated London News marked a revolution in journalism and news reporting. It provided an unprecedented visual tour of the triumphs, tragedies, daily life, and monumental events of the world and the modern British Empire. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 is an invaluable asset to students and researchers of subjects including social history, fashion, drama, media, literature, advertising, graphic design, and politics, as well as to the general public, particularly those interested in genealogy.

The Independent Historical Archive, 1986–2012

The Independent Historical Archive, 1986–2012 covers the full run of the newspaper from its very first issue until 2016. 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.

Indigenous Peoples of North America

This collection comprehensively covers the history of North American Indigenous peoples and supporting organizations, enabling intelligent inquiry into the culture and heritage of more than seventy tribes within the United States and Canada.

International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013

An online, fully searchable facsimile, the International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013 delivers the full run of this internationally focused daily paper, from its first issue through to 2013. Articles, advertisements, and market listings are included—shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.

Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950

Liberty, a weekly illustrated magazine, charted the course of middle America from 1924 to 1950 with art, stories, and feature articles from some of the twentieth century's greatest authors, celebrities, artists, and politicians. This digital archive features the complete run of the magazine, including more than 17,000 stories and articles ranging from mystery and suspense to autobiography and humor, revealing the attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and desires of America in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

During the peak of the radio age, the BBC set a global standard in reporting and commentary. The network published transcripts of its broadcasts in an innovative weekly called the Listener. This magazine expanded upon the intellectual coverage of the week and offered original content that shed light on timely political and cultural issues. This collection provides rare access to the content of many early broadcasts and the BBC's perspective on the twentieth century.

The Making of Modern Law

The definitive collection features international and foreign primary sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, plus several hundred classics in European international law since the seventeenth century.

The Making of the Modern World

The Making of Modern World is invaluable for an understanding of the competition for empire and the projection of European power from 1500 to the early twentieth century.  Explore the historical underpinnings integral to study of economics and European imperialism.

National Geographic Virtual Library

National Geographic and Gale, a Cengage company, have partnered to bring vast resources to digital life with National Geographic Virtual Library.  Now libraries can offer access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of books, maps, images, and videos.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is transforming the teaching, learning, and research landscape. Heralding a new wave of discovery into the nineteenth century, NCCO includes collections from across the globe with content in multiple languages, richly representing Africa, Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and North America.

Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957

The Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 consists of the complete, fully searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain from 1938 to 1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the twentieth century. Picture Post Historical Archive provides students and researchers with online access to a unique visual record of the 1930s to 1950s, from the humorous and lighthearted snapshots of daily life to the serious and history-defining moments of domestic and international affairs.

Political Extremism and Radicalism

This series provides insight on unorthodox groups and movements from right and left of the political spectrum through rare material, helping researchers explore governmental and societal systems and the environment that created them, their origins, and their adversaries.

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970

Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 provides scholars with materials that explore the fight for a national health care plan from the end of the Depression well into the 1960s. Content covers medical economics and sociology, medical care, legislation, and the role of key organizations and individuals. The collection’s documentation of the evolution of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at local and federal levels supports the examination of our past while considering outcomes for our future.

Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992

The fully text-searchable online archive of Punch -- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 -- is available for scholars, students, and the general researcher to explore. The archive is an unrivaled resource for researching and teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and social history on key themes such as World War I and World War II; colonialism, imperialism and End of Empire; impact of new technology and modernity; public health, conservation and environmentalism; social change; and the role of women.

Religions of America

Religions of America presents scholars and researchers with more than 660,000 pages of content that follow the development of religions and religious movements born in the U.S. from 1820 to 1990. Derived from numerous collections, most notably the American Religions Collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Religions of America traces the history and unique characteristics of movements through manuscripts, pamphlets, newsletters, ephemera, and visuals.

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, this digital archive provides a firsthand account of 450 years of history in the Americas, including discovery and exploration, slavery and European colonization, native peoples, wars of independence, religion and missionary work, social and political reforms, economic development, westward expansion, notable individuals, and much more.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part I

The largest single collection of English news media from these two centuries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection provides rare and often unique content for scholarly research into a wide range of political, educational, economic, or journalistic study.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection

Through a partnership with the Bodleian Library, Gale has digitally scanned each page of this collection, and with Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection brings these rare documents to scholars around the world in an easy-to-use, full-text searchable digital format.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

The most ambitious project of its kind, the content of Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is carefully reviewed by a renowned board of scholars and thematically arranged.  It covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery: legal issues, the Caribbean, children and women under slavery, modes of resistance, and much more.

Smithsonian Collections Online

The Smithsonian, America's foremost research and cultural institution, has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to launch a series of collections from Smithsonian's vast archives.  This partnership has yielded collections covering American history, science, world cultures, and more.

Sources in US History Online

Sources in U.S. History Online is a thematically organized collection providing information surrounding important individuals, influential perspectives, religions, political operations, and warfare from the eras that have shaped the United States.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714

State Papers Online, 1509-1714, published in four seamless parts, offers researchers a groundbreaking online resource for understanding two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne.

Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822–2021*

Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's global news and society at large. World famous for its cutting-edge investigative journalism, the newspaper broke many of the key stories of the twentieth century. In more than 600,000 full-text searchable pages, this digital collection is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers, and culture of the last two centuries.

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855–2021*

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855–2000 is the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019*

The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2019.

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019*

Since 1902, the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries, and insightful debate. The TLS has attracted the contributions of the world's most influential writers and critics, from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the 1920s and 1930s to A.N. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s. The complete run of the TLS from 1902 to 2011 is now available online as The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online

Women's Studies Archive

The Women's Studies Archive is an examination of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers us a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.