Archives Unbound

Since its inception in 2009 the Archives Unbound program has published more than 230 titles. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and the collection makes available targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in serious research.

Discovering hidden treasures in the Archives Unbound Collections to feature in your courses

(April 2022, 30 minutes)

Since its inception in 2009 the Archives Unbound program has published more than 230 titles. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and the collection makes available targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in serious research.
Particular strengths in the Archive Unbound catalog include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies. The Archives Unbound program consists of more than 290,000 documents totaling 12 million pages. Individual titles in the collection range between 1,200 and 200,000 pages. Over the coming year we will add 32 new collections amounting to more than 1.1 million pages.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, exploring the content of the archive - Phil Virta

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, the value of the archive - Phil Virta

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, decoloinising the curriculum - Phil Virta

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, case study Legatra - Phil Virta

Archives of Sexuality and Gender, part 5: L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Phil Virta

The Material in L'Enfer

The value of L'Enfer to customers

Introducing Marie-Françoise Quignard and the L'Enfer collection

British Library Newspapers

British Library Newspapers, part VI: Ireland, 1783-1950

(February 2023, 5 minutes)

British Library Newspapers, parts 1-5

(October 2022, 34 minutes)

In partnership with the British Library, we have created one of the richest collections of primary source newspaper material in the world.
British Library Newspapers consists of collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K. For decades, even hundreds of years after publication, researchers of all kinds, all over the world, turn to newspapers for information relating to a widest variety of research needs. The rise of newspapers in Britain was a phenomenon which characterized a new age. The newspaper was increasingly a medium for information required by the commercially minded societies of major cities and regional centers. Taken as a whole, the huge production of newspapers in Britain provides an enormous resource for research on all subjects for all of the U.K., both urban and rural. The bulk of advertising, particularly for new books and theatrical performances, has proved especially useful to historians. Cultural trends, political currents and social problems are reflected in the newspapers and give new freshness and immediacy to the historic events.

British Library Newspapers Part VI: Ireland, 1783-1950

(November 2022, 29 minutes)

National and provincial newspapers covering the development of Modern Ireland.
Although there were fewer restrictions, and they were not subject to the Stamp Acts, the growth of Irish newspapers was slow compared to England throughout the eighteenth century. Many of the earliest publications originated in Dublin, and a provincial press was slower to emerge. From the early 1730s, the Irish press began to develop its own tone as it moved away from adapting and reproducing news from outside of Ireland, and by 1760 there were more than 160 newspapers, dominated by Dublin. This archive begins at the point where the Irish press had started to become ‘Irish’, rather than an extension of the English press; and when provincial and politically motivated publications began to increase in quality and prominence.

The social and legal structures of eighteenth-century Ireland meant that the press was dominated by Protestant businesses until the early nineteenth century when a ‘Catholic press’ emerged. As a result, there was “a limitation on the circulation possibilities of the newspapers, and [Protestant dominance] tended to dictate an editorial content that stressed exclusivity and conservatism”. As the press expanded, a greater variety of newspapers reached the market, bringing with them a greater variety of voices and perspectives. Emergent social, economic, political, and religious ideologies that combined to form the underlying allegiances and divisions in Ireland through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generated their own publications, which are represented among the selected titles in this archive.

The British Library Newspapers Part 6: The Irish Newspapers, 1783 - 1950

(April 2022, 22 minutes)

National and provincial newspapers covering the development of Modern Ireland.
Although there were fewer restrictions, and they were not subject to the Stamp Acts, the growth of Irish newspapers was slow compared to England throughout the eighteenth century. Many of the earliest publications originated in Dublin, and a provincial press was slower to emerge. From the early 1730s, the Irish press began to develop its own tone as it moved away from adapting and reproducing news from outside of Ireland, and by 1760 there were more than 160 newspapers, dominated by Dublin. This archive begins at the point where the Irish press had started to become ‘Irish’, rather than an extension of the English press; and when provincial and politically motivated publications began to increase in quality and prominence.

The social and legal structures of eighteenth-century Ireland meant that the press was dominated by Protestant businesses until the early nineteenth century when a ‘Catholic press’ emerged. As a result, there was “a limitation on the circulation possibilities of the newspapers, and [Protestant dominance] tended to dictate an editorial content that stressed exclusivity and conservatism”. As the press expanded, a greater variety of newspapers reached the market, bringing with them a greater variety of voices and perspectives. Emergent social, economic, political, and religious ideologies that combined to form the underlying allegiances and divisions in Ireland through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generated their own publications, which are represented among the selected titles in this archive.

China and the Modern World

China and the Modern World - Imperial China and the West Parts 1&2

(April 2022, 27 minutes)
 

China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China, part 2, 1965-1993

(July 2023, 20 minutes)

Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence

Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence, Part 2: Monitoring the World

(April 2022, 25 minutes)

Signals Intelligence and GCHQ from WWI to the Cold War
Unique and original scanning of British government files from the Cabinet Office and declassified GCHQ material are here digitised for the first time in Twentieth-Century British Intelligence: Monitoring the World.

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has provided Signals Intelligence information and assessment to the British government through intercepting, decrypting and translating diplomatic, military, commercial, political and personal communications for over 100 years. Formed in 1919 from the merging of two government cryptanalysis departments from the Royal Navy (Room 40) and the War Office, it was known as the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) until 1946 and unknown to the public until its existence was revealed by investigative journalists in an article in Time Out in 1976. The top-secret work done by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park was completely unknown to the public until 1974.

As well as detailed records from Bletchley, the files made available through Twentieth Century British Intelligence include rare records from Room 40, surviving records from regional bureaus in the Far East, Australia, and the Middle East, and in-depth coverage of global events from intercepted decrypts.

The scale of the material produced during WWII and the Cold War and the addition of this collection to Gale Digital Scholar Lab means that many more DH enthusiasts will be able to use this content with the Text and Data Mining tools offered through the Lab.​

The Making of Modern Law

The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

(April 2022, 20 minutes)

The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Part I: 1950‒1980 makes available records allowing scholars in legal studies, 20th-century American social history, and politics to:

• Gain insights into legal reasoning used by the parties in advancing their positions.
• Identify the authorities used to support an argument.
• Find specific documents from a trial or appellate proceeding.
• Find transcripts of testimony and other sources for historical research.

Never before has there been the level of scrutiny and debate on legal issues both past and present. The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Part I: 1950‒1980 provides in-depth coverage of landmark cases for historical perspective and contemporary consideration. The collection features cases involving impeachment, constitutional rights, sexual harassment, campaign finance, and more, including:

Second Circuit Cases Among the Most Cited

• Dennis v. United States (landmark First Amendment case)
• Galella v. Onassis (harassment by paparazzi)
• United States v. Rosenberg (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)
• Holtzman v. Schlesinger (presidential war powers)
• Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (protection from unreasonable searches and seizures)
• Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Rockefeller (prison uprising)
• Flood v. Kuhn (“reserve clause” in baseball)
• United States v. Hiss (Alger Hiss)
• Lennon v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (John Lennon)
• New York Times Co. v. United States (Pentagon Papers)

District of Columbia Circuit Cases Among the Most Cited

• Canterbury v. Spence (landmark malpractice case)
• Durham v. United States (insanity defense)
• Rouse v. Cameron (right to treatment for mental patients)
• Barnes v. Costle (first sexual harassment case)
• Bundy v. Jackson (sexual harassment as workplace discrimination)
• United States v. Brawner (insanity defense)
• Nixon v. Sirica (Watergate scandal)
• Buckley v. Valeo (campaign finance)
• United States v. Haldeman (Watergate scandal)
• Matlovich v. Secretary of the Air Force (military policy toward gays)

Gale Presents: National Geographic Virtual Library
 

(September 2022, 35 minutes)

Gale Presents: National Geographic Virtual Library - promotional video

(July 2023, 1 minute)

State Papers Online

State Papers Online: an overview of the series

(November 2021, 40 minutes)

Political Extremism and Radicalism

Political Extremism and Radicalism, Part III: Communist and Socialist Movements around the World
Quick Overview

(February 2023, 6 minutes)

A collection of first-hand narratives chronicling communist, socialist, and far-left Groups.
This archive provides insight into how communist, socialist, and far-left groups and figures saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events that occurred in the twentieth century.

The primary sources in this collection come from multiple regions, thereby offering the opportunity for the comparative study of left-wing thinking. For example, how communist parties differ around the world, why communism or socialism succeeds in some countries and not others, as well as the characteristics of these movements in different countries.

Political Extremism and Radicalism: an overview of the series

(November 2021, 34 minutes)

Women's Studies Archive

Women's Studies Archive Part 4: Female Forerunners Worldwide
Quick overview

(February 2023, 8 minutes)

Spotlighting women who have broken new paths in society, business, culture and healthcare

This fourth instalment of the multi award-winning Women’s Studies Archive programme, Female Forerunners Worldwide, focuses on individual women and organisations around the world who have broken new paths in society through business, social reform, popular culture, health care, and more.

Covering over three centuries, the primary sources included span from 1759 to 2002. Key highlights include contributions of African American women trailblazers; nursing journals from around the world (including Britain, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean); popular magazines from Australia and New Zealand; and collections concerning the supernatural and crime.

This resource supports students and scholars working in the fields of women’s history, gender studies, and social history by enabling research on key topics such as civil rights, political activism, literature, women’s experience of prison and the justice system, medicine, work and professional representation, racism and slavery, spiritualism, missionary work, and periodicals.

"A niche primary source collection with unique documents highlighting significant and lesser-known women trailblazers that pays particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several of the collections bring attention to marginalized voices, including those who were enslaved or imprisoned. It is a solid selection for institutions that support advanced research in the humanities, history, gender studies, and other scholarly areas with a focus on women’s lived experiences." – Reviewed for Library Journal by Gricel Dominguez, a Librarian at Florida International University

Women's Studies Archive Part 4: Female Forerunners Worldwide

(April 2022, 29 minutes)

This fourth instalment of the multi award-winning Women’s Studies Archive programme, Female Forerunners Worldwide, focuses on individual women and organisations around the world who have broken new paths in society through business, social reform, popular culture, health care, and more.

Covering over three centuries, the primary sources included span from 1759 to 2002. Key highlights include contributions of African American women trailblazers; nursing journals from around the world (including Britain, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean); popular magazines from Australia and New Zealand; and collections concerning the supernatural and crime.

This resource supports students and scholars working in the fields of women’s history, gender studies, and social history by enabling research on key topics such as civil rights, political activism, literature, women’s experience of prison and the justice system, medicine, work and professional representation, racism and slavery, spiritualism, missionary work, and periodicals.

Women's Studies Archive: an overview

(November 2021, 41 minutes)

Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990

Quick Overview

(February 2023, 7 minutes)

Over 330 cookbooks range in publication date from Charles Carter’s The Complete Practical Cook, published in London in 1730, to Susan Anna Brown’s Mrs. Gilpin’s frugalities: remnants, and 200 ways of using them, published New York in 1883, to Ruth Ellen Church’s Mary Meade’s magic recipes for the electric blender, published in Indianapolis in 1952. This is a delectable collection comprising centuries of recipes for the kitchen, medicinal formulas for the home, advice for the housekeeper, practical ways to cook on a budget, tips on serving and table etiquette, guidance concerning household management, how to grow one’s own food, how to select and buy food, and much more. Food History shows the types of foods that were being eaten, different cultural cuisines, and the diversity of foodways.

The collection includes 19 handwritten manuscript recipe books, mainly from the New England and Mid-Atlantic areas, with a few from England. The books range in date from 1669 to the early 1900s with the majority centered in the nineteenth century. These unique volumes, mostly created and compiled by women, provide valuable documentation of their lived experience. They record historic ingredients, food preparation techniques, and published and unpublished recipes, as well as medicinal remedies and household recipes.

Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990

(February 2023, 33 minutes)

From the Winterthur Museum and Library in Delaware, 328 cookbooks and domestic management books range in publication dates from 1669-1990. Food History shows the types of foods that were being eaten, different cultural cuisines, and the diversity of foodways. These unique volumes, mostly created and compiled by women, provide valuable documentation of their lived experience. They record historic ingredients, food preparation techniques, and published and unpublished recipes, as well as medicinal remedies and household recipes.

Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in Former Colonial Territories

Quick overview

(February 2023, 8 minutes)

First-hand Perspectives from Previously Colonised and Commonwealth Regions.
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories presents political ephemera and organizational material produced in over 70 countries and territories around the world throughout the twentieth century. The collection helps researchers explore decolonization as a historical process, specifically the changing or adapting of systems from an imposed imperial or colonial structure after 1945 and up to the present day. It also sheds light on the politics and processes of national political developments that followed decolonization and through which the former colonies negotiated their own agency and their own futures.

Decolonization: The Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories is integrated into Gale’s cloud-based Text and Data Mining (TDM) environment, Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Researchers are invited to take their digital humanities scholarship on pathways to new discoveries with powerful analytical tools that enable enhanced storytelling through data. The Lab removes barriers to entry for researchers of all skill levels, with accessible, intuitive workflows that help users analyze content regardless of technical experience.

Researchers can draw comparisons between different political movements within newly independent countries and territories in the 1960s and 1970s, alongside Commonwealth territories including Australia and Canada, as well as to compare how and why self-rule developed differently by region. Party and grassroots politics in these regions often took many forms and this collection gives insight into the range of political movements and the individuals who shaped developments in the new systems.

Times Educational Supplement

Quick overview

(February 2023, 6 minutes)

EXPLORE NEARLY A CENTURY OF EDUCATIONAL REPORTAGE AND COMMENTARY
For the first time, students and scholars can digitally mine any twentieth-century issue of The Times Educational Supplement (TES), one of the most well-regarded primary and secondary education news sources. Founded a handful of years before the onset of World War I, TES became the leading publication on public policy and pedagogical practice over the decades, not only in the United Kingdom but worldwide. In these more than 4,300 issues, researchers will find ample material in fields such as education, social history, women’s studies, public health, literature and the arts, and a variety of topics in the humanities and social sciences.

The first issue of The Times Educational Supplement was published on September 6, 1910, as part of The Times of London. It became a standalone publication in 1914, and today, as TES, its present owners claim to host “the largest network of teachers in the world.”

Over its first decade, TES established itself as a newspaper for teachers, with a particular focus on advocacy of educational reforms. Its readership expanded over time beyond its initial audience of private and grammar school teachers as parents and general readers grew interested in school reform activity.

The current TES platform is vast. According to its website, TES works “with 25,000 schools in more than 100 countries” and provides “innovative services and access to over 900,000 teacher-made resources to help teachers succeed in the classroom.”

Gale's Times Educational Supplement Archive provides a unique teaching and learning resource for students to explore the world’s oldest continuous educational publication. Teachers can empower researchers to use this resource to learn about historical education policies, pedagogy, tech, reform, funding, social policy, and more.

The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910–2000

Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2021

(July 2023 - 12 minutes)

The Sunday Times Historical Archive 1822-2021 brings two centuries of news together in one resource, providing the complete run of the newspaper and its supplements, in one cross-searchable and browseable platform.

It perfectly complements Gale's other newspaper collections, including The Times Digital Archive, The Listener Historical Archive, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, British Library Newspapers, and many more. The ability to cross-search these well-known titles alongside the Sunday Times provides an unmatched discovery experience for the user.

Despite the similarity of names, the Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from the Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news.

The Mail on Sunday Historical Archive, 1982-2011

(July 2023 - 7 minutes)

Utilise over four decades of content from Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper to expand your understanding of conservative middle-class life and culture
Established in 1982 under the same ownership as, but editorially separate from, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday has been one of the top UK Sunday newspapers for four decades. Generally conservative in its stance, journalists have included Piers Morgan, Peter Hitchens and conservative politician Norman Tebbit. It has covered British politics on the domestic and international stage through sometimes contentious or sensationalist tabloid journalism, from its launch during the Falklands War and the sweeping economic reforms of the Thatcher years to the controversial conflicts in the Middle East under the Blair premiership and the News International phone hacking scandal and subsequent Leveson inquiry in the 2000s.
 

Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century

(February 2024 - 42 minutes)

The primary sources in this collection document issues of social justice and how attitudes about civil rights, gender equality, the environment, the government, and many of society’s institutions shifted dramatically to include citizen involvement, public welfare, and the planet’s health in the twentieth century. The archive presents a social history that highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion in materials created by the last generations that depended on primarily print communication, offering a unique reflection of the time before the growth of the internet and social media. Alternative press publications throughout the archive represent anti-establishment and counter-cultural ideas and movements. Although these are often overlooked as vehicles for providing perspectives on social movements and countercultural ideas, they can impact just as greatly as mainstream social movements. The alternative press titles in the collection are unique, examining social issues, politics and government, sexuality, diversity, and more.

A Conversation with Bob Cooney – Activist, Author, Creator of the Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection, and the Impetus Behind Gale’s Power to the People Archive

(October 2023 - 56 minutes)

In the second half of the 20th century, society in the United States bore witness to many events that challenged diversity, equity, inclusivity, and social justice – desegregation and Civil Rights; the Vietnam War; the Anti-Nuclear Movement; La Causa – the Farmworkers’ Movement; the Stonewall Uprising and the Gay Rights Movement; Roe vs. Wade and a woman’s right to an abortion; acid rain and climate change; just to name a few.

Popular catch phrases captured the zeitgeist of the time period: “Power to the People”; “Stop the War”; “Save the Whales”; “Boycott Grapes”; “Resist the Draft”; “Free Huey”; “Earth First”’; “Sit-In”; “Silence Equals Death”; “No Nukes”; “My Body, My Choice”; “No Blood For Oil”; “Make Love, Not War”; “Keep on Truckin’”; “Just Say No. The social and cultural environment was ripe for movement building, personal courage, radical activism, and self-determination.

During this period in American history (and beyond), Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. (Bob Cooney) has worked to cultivate a culture of diversity and social change. Bob is an activist for nonviolence and women’s rights, a graphic designer, author, editor, and publisher, and the creator of the Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection which provides materials about counterculture, social movements, and the alternative press through more than 11,000 items across a wide array of subjects. As a matter of fact, Bob’s collection was the impetus for Gale’s Power to the People archive.

The Gale Learning Centre

(October 2023 - 2 minutes)

Gale Learning Centre: Conceptualize

(October 2023 - 2 minutes)

Gale Learning Centre: Find

(October 2023 - 2 minutes)

Gale Learning Centre: Read

(October 2023 - 2 minutes)

Gale Learning Centre: Use

(October 2023 - 1 minute)

Digital Scholar Overview and Building a Content Set

(September 2022, 35 minutes)

The Gale Digital Humanities Hub Supporting Teaching and Research in DH
https://www.gale.com/intl/primary-sources/digital-humanities

A New Lens for Historical Texts
Together with libraries, Gale is poised to help colleges and universities launch, enhance, or accelerate their digital scholarship programs, strengthening connections with faculty and students. Gale Digital Scholar Lab, developed with participation from beta testers across a wide range of institutions and organisations, is designed to transform the way scholars and students access and analyse Gale primary source materials by offering solutions to some of the most common challenges facing researchers in the digital humanities today. 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 lens to explore history and empowers researchers to generate world-altering conclusions and outcomes. Through advanced humanities computing tools that make natural language processing (NLP) for historical texts accessible, more efficient, and impactful, the footprint of digital humanities can be expanded to more classrooms around the globe.

Digital Scholar Lab - Cleaning the OCR

(September 2022, 13 minutes)

Digital Scholar Lab - Analyse

(September 2022, 17 minutes)

Gale Research Showcase

(September 2024, 6 minutes)

Learn more about Gale Research Showcase: https://www.gale.com/intl/primary-sources/gale-research-showcase

Gale Literature: Literature Criticism Online

(August 2023, 14 minutes)

Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography

(August 2023, 14 minutes)

Gale Literature: Something about the Author

(August 2023, 13 minutes)

Gale Literature Resource Centre

(August 2023, 15 minutes)

Gale Literature: LitFinder

(August 2023, 14 minutes)

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series and Twayne's Author Series

(August 2023, 10 minutes)

Gale Academic OneFile - short overview of the product

(December 2022, 4 minutes)
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Gale Academic OneFile - promotional video

(July 2023, 2 minutes)

(February 2023 - 7 minutes)
Short database overview

Gale OneFile: News

(February 2023, 3 minutes)

World Newspapers & Media
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.  Includes Australian News Limited and Fairfax content.

The Related Resources feature recommends additional content of interest, providing a more dynamic, relevant presentation of related content. The InterLink feature provides a better cross-search experience via unique subject indexing and results-ranking algorithms, helping researchers find the content they need without having to know the specific resource in which to find it.

Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand - short product overview

(December 2022, 7 minutes)
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Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand   
Exploring content from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand

(23 May 2024,  33 minutes)

Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand provides authoritative, full-text content with a regional focus, complemented by global news, reference, and multimedia coverage. The database features a variety of magazines, journals, news, and multimedia sources across academic disciplines and areas of interest, covering important issues and current events related to Australia and New Zealand.

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(December 2022, 6 minutes)
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(July 2023, 2 minutes)

Gale Academic OneFile - short overview of the product

(December 2022, 4 minutes)
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Gale Academic OneFile - promotional video

(July 2023, 2 minutes)

Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand - short product overview

(December 2022, 7 minutes)
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Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand   
Exploring content from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand

(23 May 2024,  33 minutes)

Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand provides authoritative, full-text content with a regional focus, complemented by global news, reference, and multimedia coverage. The database features a variety of magazines, journals, news, and multimedia sources across academic disciplines and areas of interest, covering important issues and current events related to Australia and New Zealand.

Gale OneFile: News

(February 2023, 3 minutes)

World Newspapers & Media
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.  Includes Australian News Limited and Fairfax content.

The Related Resources feature recommends additional content of interest, providing a more dynamic, relevant presentation of related content. The InterLink feature provides a better cross-search experience via unique subject indexing and results-ranking algorithms, helping researchers find the content they need without having to know the specific resource in which to find it.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

(March 2022, 25 minutes)

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.
With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
 

Gale Health and Wellness

(February 2022, 5 minutes)

Authoritative, up-to-date information on health topics
With health information carefully compiled by trusted professionals, Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, periodicals, reference works and multimedia. Ideal for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

An updated, easy-to-navigate interface featuring quick links to hot topics, conditions, diseases and overviews.

More than 1,000 medical journals, periodicals, and articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications, medical newspapers, newsletters and news feeds
A broad collection of full-text reference works including The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Medical Health Information Directory, The Medical and Health Information Directory and various Thomson Healthcare and Micromedex drug guides
Hundreds of streaming videos with transcripts from medical experts via Healthology, Illumistream, NBC and ORLive.
Links to trusted health Web sites

Gale Business Insights - short product overview

(December 2022, 6 minutes)
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(July 2023, 2 minutes)

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

(February 2023, 5 minutes)

Cover all areas of starting and operating a business
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Gale Business: Plan Builder

(February 2023, 6 minutes)

Step-by-step guidance for new entrepreneurs, experienced small business owners, and those starting or running a nonprofit.
Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success. Areas include

Entrepreneur Profile This tool helps users explore what they can bring to the table as an entrepreneur and assess where they stand in preparing to start a business. A one-page summary of them as an entrepreneur is generated.

Business Ideation Users can employ tools such as Lean Canvas, SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and more to plan the high-level framework in which their business will operate.

Break-Even Analysis Delivers insight to determine when a user’s business will be able to cover expenses and begin to realize a profit.

Business Plans Creates a plan that can be presented to potential investors and lenders, including Executive Summary, Lean Business Plan, Full Business Plan, and Strategic Marketing Plan.

Financial Projections A robust analysis of a company’s financial future encompassing capital expenditures, sales, equity, and inventory.

For patrons exploring the idea of small business ownership, this resource provides a gradual introduction to entrepreneurial concepts and elements. For seasoned business persons or those progressing through the recommended workflow, the focus shifts toward outcome-based activities to support the management and growth of an operation, such as getting a loan, seeking investors, buying new equipment, and opening new facilities.

Gale Business: Plan Builder is equipped with popular, proven business planning tools and templates to assist users in creating documents and other deliverables such as a Lean Canvas, Break-Even Analysis, Lean Business Plan, a variety of financial statements, and more.

Literature Resource Centre

(December 2022, 6 minutes)
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Gale Literature Resource Centre

(August 2023, 15 minutes)

Gale Literature: LitFinder

(August 2023, 14 minutes )

Gale Literature: LitFinder

(December 2022, 7 minutes)
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Gale Books and Authors

(February 2023, 4 minutes)

Gale Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
Books and Authors connects readers with books and provides many key functions in your library, including increase circulation of fiction and non-fiction, build and promote book clubs and programs in your library, help patrons make informed reading choices and drives potential and existing patrons to your library database via the Open Web.
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Gale In Context databases - short overview of the series

(December 2022, 6 minutes)

Gale In Context: Elementary - short overview of product

(December 2022, 6 minutes)

Gale Interactive: Science

(December 2022, 5 minutes)
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(July 2023, 2 minutes)

National Geographic Kids

(December 2022, 4 minutes)
This short video provides an overview of the product content and the platform features

Gale Literature: Literature Criticism Online

(August 2023, 14 minutes)

Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography

(August 2023, 14 minutes)

Gale Literature: Something about the Author

(August 2023, 13 minutes)

(February 2023 - 7 minutes)
Short database overview

Gale Database Integrations

Gale Database Integrations: Gale In Context Elementary and National Geographic Kids

(September 2024 - 30 minutes)

Gale Database Integrations: Gale In Context: Science & Gale Interactive: Science

(March 2024 - 21 minutes)

Gale eBooks - short product overview

(December 2022, 4 minutes)

This short video provides an overview of the content of the product and the main features of the platform

Gale eBooks

(November 2022, 23 minutes)

Gale eBooks provides the top titles covering the most studied subject areas,  offering more than 30,000 eBooks from Gale and 3rd party publishers. Gale eBooks platform is optimized for search, discovery, and integration across your library’s educational programs – giving patrons a better learning experience.
And forget those common complaints, such as eBooks are hard to use and require multiple copy purchases. Your single-copy purchase of any eBook means access to everyone, anytime, with no special downloads or apps.

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series and Twayne's Author Series

(August 2023, 10 minutes)

Gale Power search

(November 2022, 3 minutes)

Cross-search content from select Gale products, including Gale's OneFile periodicals, In Context products, and Gale eBooks

Topic Finder

(November 2022, 3 minutes)

Generate a visual representation of your search results by topic and subtopic Topic Finder organizes results based on the frequency of occurring terms, allowing you to hone in on targeted keywords, envision connections between topics, and create new research paths. Use Topic Finder if you’re having trouble coming up with a research topic, when you have an idea for a topic and want to investigate related topics, or when you want to narrow your search results.

As you click Topic Finder tiles, results on the right update dynamically, allowing for oneclick access into relevant content. Simply click an article’s title to view it

Translation features

(November 2022, 3 minutes)

Easy-to-use translation tools make Gale resources accessible to more people. With over 40 languages to choose from, users can translate individual articles or elements of the product interface. In addition, the ReadSpeaker tool allows the user to hear articles read aloud in a variety of languages.

Subject Guide Search

(November 2022, 2 minutes)

The subject guide search offers the ability to narrow a single topic by subdivisions, and to view narrower and broader related topics. If you have a broad topic in mind, this search can help you identify targeted tags to find documents fully focused on the topic. You can also use this search to specify the appropriate context for words with varied meanings or to discern between people with the same name.

Publication Search

(November 2022, 3 minutes)

Use Publication Search to enter the title of a publication of interest. Click on any matching result to view coverage details, and link to articles from individual issues. You can also use Create Journal Alert to subscribe to automatic emails or receive RSS notification when a new issue is added to that publication

Filtering search results

(November 2022, 2 minutes)

The first search that you come to on the Gale platforms allows you to perform a broad search across the Entire Document
Once you have performed your search; there are limiters to help narrow your results.  The Filtering your results options allow you to apply limits based on Date Published, Subjects, and Document Type.  Alternately can select Search Within and submit additional terms to refine your search.

Customising reading preferences

(November 2022, 3 minutes)

You can customise your reading experience using  a number of tools. These features include:
Translation tools - using a machine readable translations in many languages
Font sizes - the ability ot adjust font sizes of each article
Document customisation to assist dyslexic users- the ability to change font, page color and distances between letters and words

Text to Speech

(November 2022, 2 minutes)

Our text to speech function using ReadSpeaker converts text and streams the corresponding audio content without any software downloads or special plug-ins needed.  Users can select any portion of text or an entire article to be streamed as audio. With a click of a button, any Gale online text can be read aloud via the user’s computer, making Gale content more accessible.
These audio segments can also be saved as MP3 files for use on MP3 players for listening at a later time.

Adding notes to articles

(November 2022, 2 minutes)

Annotate important text with Highlights and Notes. Click and drag to select text within a result, choose a highlighter color, and add notes to the selection. Download, Print, or Send to… email, Google Drive, or OneDrive to retain your highlights and notes with the article.

Downloading content to Google Drive and Microsoft Onedrive

(November 2022, 2 minutes)

Gale databases allow you to download articles and any highlights and notes to your Google Drive or Microsoft Onedrive 

Citation tools

(November 2022, 1 minute)

Use Cite to generate a citation using MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Export the citation into a variety of tools, or simply copy and paste it into your bibliography.

Day 1: Unlocking the Past for The Future

How an Archive is Made - Seth Cayley

(May 2021, 16 minutes)
Some collections arrive neatly organized and others arrive heaped into boxes. How does one create order from clutter? Covert print content into digital, searchable archives? Where do we start? What goes into the making of an Archive?

Dangerous Archives - Seth Cayley, Daniel Jones and Maddie Smith

(May 2021, 46 minutes)
What is it like to be the custodian of archival material that society considers - or once considered - dangerous or objectionable? What are the ethical questions to consider around enabling access to such content, both in physical and digital form? In this session we will hear about the experiences of the curator of the British Library's "Private Case" collection of erotic literature, and also the perspective of the archivist of the Searchlight Archive, which holds material documenting fascist and racist organisations around the world.

Marginalized Voices And Hidden Histories; Unlocking The Past With Institutional Partners -Phil Virta

(May 2021, 29 minutes)
Gale’s multi-part Archives of Sexuality and Gender program is the largest digital collection of primary source documents relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender. The program presents queer history and culture since 1940, sex and sexuality from the 16^th to 20^th centuries, and activism and culture in Southern Africa and Australia during the 20^th century.  Philip Virta will discuss how the program was developed, the partner institutions Gale worked with, why we worked with them, their motivations, barriers to progress, the sheer pleasure of working with fascinating individuals, the joy of representing marginalized people, and the narratives of hidden histories found in the archives.

Preservation, Privacy and Access: A Digitisation Tale - Linda Chernis & Debora Matthews

(May 2021, 23 minutes)
In 2020 GALE included 25 collections from the GALA Queer Archive in its latest series in the Archives of Gender & Sexuality.  This presentation looks at the experience of a relatively small, queer archive undergoing a large-scale digitization project for the first time.  The GALA archivist, Linda Chernis will begin by giving a short overview of GALA including its history and scope of collections. Debora Matthews, who was contracted by GALA to project manage the digitization process on behalf of GALE and GALA will then speak about her experiences with the project, such as how collections are prepared for scanning, some of the challenges involved, and the very important step of making sure material did not compromise anyone’s safety or privacy, a crucial aspect when digitizing and publishing any archive material online, but even more so in the context of an archive that records stories of marginalised and at-risk groups, such as GALA.  

Day 2: New Perspectives

The Atlas of Digitized Newspapers and Oceanic Exchanges - Emily Bell

(May 2021, 28 minutes)
Oceanic Exchanges brought together computational periodicals research from six countries to examine patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries, producing The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata, an open access guide to international newspaper databases, their histories and digitisation choices, to better understand the relationship between digital archive and digital researcher.

Digitizing Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt: The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and Beyond- Dr Mark Byron

(May 2021, 24 minutes)
The six manuscript notebooks and partial typescript of Samuel Beckett’s wartime novel Watt (first published in 1953) present a substantial reservoir of material that did not survive into print, but which illuminate many of the textual curiosities of the novel. My work in digitizing the manuscript notebooks shows how this relationship between primary documents and published text can take complex and surprising forms.

One Hundred Years of Migration Discourse in The Times - Lorella Viola

(May 2021, 20 minutes)
This presentation investigates the historical changes in the public discourse of migration in the United Kingdom using the Times Digital Archive from 1900 to 2000. It does so by merging two techniques: neural word embeddings and the discourse-historical approach. Striking correlations have been found between the language used to describe migration, concurrent events, and public discourse.

Materiality and a History Of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Stephen Gregg

(May 2021, 31 minutes)
Via a few case studies, this paper will explore the traces of ‘bookish’ materiality in ECCO, revealing the entangled processes to which these eighteenth-century books have been subject. It will emphasise the necessity of users to better understand the cultural and technical history of commercial databases.

The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700 - Dr Erin McCarthy

(May 2021, 25 minutes)
The European Research Council-funded project “RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700” was a collaborative, interdisciplinary project to develop a large-scale, quantitative account of the ways early modern women’s writing was read and transmitted. This paper will reflect on the challenges and opportunities we have faced in turning from data gathering to data analysis. It will also introduce the publicly accessible version of the RECIRC database, launched in Galway in January 2020

Genre, Gender & The Gaze: Digital Approaches Towards A Critical Literary History of The Face - Dr Tyne Daile Sumner

(May 2021, 22 minutes)
This presentation introduces some of the digital literary studies approaches being explored in the ARC Discovery project, 'Literature and the Face: A Critical History' based at the University of Melbourne and the University of Geneva. It focuses on the need to strike a balance between large scale text corpora analysis and close reading along genre and gender lines.

Day 3: Share the Knowledge

Providers, Promoters, Collaborators? Thinking about the Role of Academic Libraries in GDSL Landscape - Alexis Tindall

(May 2021, 22 minutes)
An explosion of digitised texts and collections of contemporary text sources provides huge new opportunities in text and data mining. New and exciting digital approaches to humanities research are emerging, sometimes at a rate that outpaces the capacity of potential users to consider them. Despite some practitioners bringing extraordinary digital proficiency to humanities research, with the skills and capacity to learn and develop new technological approaches, a role remains for no-code or low-code options for many users. Accessible, web-based, user-friendly tools provide an entry point for those interested in digital humanities but new to computational methods, for those trialling digital approaches that complement other forms of research, and for those wanting to test a theory or approach in an efficient and straightforward environment.

Academic libraries provide resources, information, skills, spaces, and initiatives to support information literacy. In 2021 this extends beyond books and articles to data, tools and devices. In recent years the University of Adelaide Library has provided the Gale Digital Scholar Lab for accessing and analysing digital archives. In this presentation we will discuss ways we promote this resource and support our users.
 

Welcome to the Gale Power To The People Symposium 

(October 2023 - 4 minutes)

Welcome to the Symposium - Laura Whiton, Sales and Marketing Director Gale ANZ/SEA

A Conversation with Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr. – Activist, Author, Creator of the Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection, and the Impetus Behind Gale’s Power to the People Archive

(October 2023 - 56 minutes)

In the second half of the 20th century, society in the United States bore witness to many events that challenged diversity, equity, inclusivity, and social justice – desegregation and Civil Rights; the Vietnam War; the Anti-Nuclear Movement; La Causa – the Farmworkers’ Movement; the Stonewall Uprising and the Gay Rights Movement; Roe vs. Wade and a woman’s right to an abortion; acid rain and climate change; just to name a few.

Popular catch phrases captured the zeitgeist of the time period: “Power to the People”; “Stop the War”; “Save the Whales”; “Boycott Grapes”; “Resist the Draft”; “Free Huey”; “Earth First”’; “Sit-In”; “Silence Equals Death”; “No Nukes”; “My Body, My Choice”; “No Blood For Oil”; “Make Love, Not War”; “Keep on Truckin’”; “Just Say No. The social and cultural environment was ripe for movement building, personal courage, radical activism, and self-determination.

During this period in American history (and beyond), Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. (Bob Cooney) has worked to cultivate a culture of diversity and social change. Bob is an activist for nonviolence and women’s rights, a graphic designer, author, editor, and publisher, and the creator of the Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection which provides materials about counterculture, social movements, and the alternative press through more than 11,000 items across a wide array of subjects. As a matter of fact, Bob’s collection was the impetus for Gale’s Power to the People archive.

Please attend a virtual conversation with Bob where some of the topics we will cover include:
Learning more about Bob’s life experiences in America during the second half of the 20th century
His resistance of the draft and organizing against the Vietnam War
His study of nonviolent tactics and philosophy
His interest in, and advocacy for, women’s rights
His authorship and publication of The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States and Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement
Creation of the Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection and why it is important
Thoughts on social movements from the past and today

Speaker Bios: - Robert P.J. Cooney Jr. ([email protected])
Bob Cooney left Santa Clara University in 1970 to actively oppose the war in Vietnam and find a positive path in life. He refused to cooperate with the draft and found support at Joan Baez’s Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in Palo Alto where he became immersed in the counterculture and political dissent. Fearing he would never see any of the printed material he encountered again, he saved whatever he could from the 1960s on. He is the author of “The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States” and “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement.”

He saved a wide variety of underground newspapers, magazines, booklets, comics, leaflets and posters from the 1960s on. His Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection includes more than 11,000 items on the counterculture, social movements and the alternative press.

Mr. Cooney became a graphic designer and editor who wrote and designed two popular history books with compelling photographs and ephemera: “The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States” and “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement.”

Philip Virta - Acquisitions, Gale Primary Sources. Gale, a Cengage Company ([email protected])
Philip Virta is senior acquisitions editor at Gale, Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States, and is the coordinating editor of the Archives of Sexuality and Gender program, and the archives Power to the People and Disabilities in Society.

Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century. An Interview with Arlene Shaner, Historical Collections Librarian

(October 2023 - 32 minutes)

Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century demonstrates how society has interacted with and treated individuals with disabilities historically. Materials include personal memoirs, records of treatments, methods of education, and forms of remediation. Reports and proceedings of organizations and institutions that sought to help or heal those with disabilities are included, as well as records of policies and programs. Through this collection, researchers will grasp the many forms of institutional discrimination, political exclusion, and social control under which disabled individuals struggled.

This collection also documents the rise of disabilities movements and their efforts to gain political power. Materials chronicle how individuals were classified and treated, and how some overcame physical or mental challenges to change perceptions of what it means to be disabled.

Speaker Bio:
Arlene Shaner - Historical Collections Librarian. The New York Academy of Medicine
Arlene Shaner is the Historical Collections Librarian in the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine Library, where she has been on the staff since January of 2001. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Rochester and an MLS from Indiana University-Bloomington, and worked, among other places, as an archivist at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and as a reference librarian at St. Louis Community College – Forest Park, before coming to the Academy. She is especially interested in promoting the use of the Library’s collections through collaborations with individual researchers and by hosting classes and groups who are interested in exploring the connections between the humanities and the history of medicine and health.

Australian Trans* & Gender Diverse Youth Participation in Education Research - Jessie Fletcher

(October 2023 - 20 minutes)

Youth voice and participation, in particular youth who experience various forms of marginalisation within education, are lacking in education research and missing from policy making. Trans and Gender Diverse youth experience covert and overt forms of discrimination that impact upon their health and wellbeing at school, so why aren't we consulting them about how to best address it? My presentation briefly touches upon my work with trans and gender diverse youth and offers an overview how we might frame our thinking around ethically collaborating with young people. I discuss Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a method that can serve to interrogate structural oppression, decolonise ways and places of knowing, empower young people and take collective action for social justice in education.

Speaker Bio:
Jessie Fletcher - PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Education at Macquarie University in Sydney
Jessie (they/she) is an experienced and passionate public high school educator, education agitator and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Education at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Grounded in contemporary queer and trans theory and critical methodologies, their research is dedicated to further queering education research and public education, from policy and infrastructure to pedagogy, praxis, curriculum development and modes of educational delivery. They are invested in deepening our understanding of the intersecting ways in which gender operates in education and are currently conducting a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project exploring the lived experiences of Trans* and Gender Diverse youth in New South Wales schools.

Partnering with Source Libraries and Building Gale Primary Sources

(October 2023 - 18 minutes)

Bennett Graf, Gale Acquisition, Digital Collections Division

An introduction to the Commons Social Change Library.  People active in social movements all around..

(October 2023 - 26 minutes)

An introduction to the Commons Social Change Library. People active in social movements all around the world are using Commons resources to make their activism smarter, stronger, and more inclusive.

This presentation will provide an introduction to the Commons Social Change Library. People who are active in social movements all over the world are using Commons resources to make their activism smarter, stronger, and more inclusive.
The Commons Library has over 1000 educational resources on many aspects of social change including campaigning, organising, digital tactics, communications, working in groups and much more.

The Justice, Diversity & Inclusion topic area of the Commons Library includes:
Profiles of campaigns led by people with lived experience of injustice
Guides to inclusive practices for workplaces, events and online meetings
Guides to inclusive terminology
Examples of effective allyship and solidarity
Films, TED Talks and podcasts
In addition the Commons Library recently completed the Making Advocacy Accessible project which focused on amplifying the leadership of people with disability and improving accessibility in campaigns and advocacy activities.

The Commons Library welcomes contributions including summaries of academic research relevant to social movements, case studies (historical and recent), handbooks, interviews, training tools and more.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Iain McIntyre - Commons Social Change Library
Dr Iain McIntyre brings past social movements stories to present day change makers through regular Commons Library social media posts and articles. He also writes campaign case studies and researches social change related issues. He is a social movement historian who is currently working on a Gerda Henkel Foundation funded research project about direct action and democracy. Alongside producing radio documentaries, podcasts and audio tours he has written and edited eight books, including Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement (Routledge, 2021) and How To Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protests, Graffiti and Political Mischief Making From Across Australia (PM Press, 2013). Co-edited with Andrew Nette, his Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985 (PM Press, 2021) won a Locus Award in 2022.
 

Breaking the chains of assimilation: Indigenous-led paradigms for Equitable Diversity and Inclusion for lasting transformation

(October 2023 - 30 minutes)

In this talk we will critically examine the colonial underpinnings of prevailing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion framework. We contend that the roots of discrimination and marginalisation can be traced back to colonisation, resulting in the contemporary exploitation of EDI and forced organisational conformity. EDI approaches barely scratch the surface of the systemic challenges ingrained in the very concept of ‘work’. We focus primarily on the limitations of EDI strategies for Indigenous people in Australia to bring awareness of the importance of reframing EDI paradigms.

Foundational to this reimagining are Indigenous conceptualisations of equity and diversity, deeply rooted in Indigenous cultures. Drawing on the work of Aboriginal scholar Dr Mary Graham and Cherokee business leader Rebecca Adamson and our own research into Indigenous disability in Australia to inform an Indigenous paradigm of EDI. We argue that Indigenous-led organisations are leaders in the EDI space, this we attribute to the custodial ethic and the valuing of non-monetary gains in business. We further argue that the assimilationist tendencies embedded within EDI can be transformed through the adoption of Indigenous-led frameworks. By centring these frameworks, organisations can foster true inclusion by using equity as the foundation for valuing diverse perspectives and paradigms. Ultimately, this shift holds the potential to transcend the tokenism of diversity and reshape the very foundations of work in a manner that truly respects, celebrates, and empowers all voices.

Speaker Bios:
Dr. Samantha Cooms - University of Queensland
Dr Samantha Cooms is a proud Noonuccal Quandamooka mother and carer, she holds a business and informatics PhD in decolonising disability from Central Queensland University and is now a Lecturer in Management.
Dr Cooms has a background in psychology and experience working in the mental health and disability sectors. She is passionate about disrupting hegemonic assumptions and promoting First Nations ways of knowing, being and doing. She has experience with using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research with a special interest in the use of poetic inquiry for sharing voices and perspectives of First Nations peoples in qualitative research. Dr Cooms's research seeks to decolonise and Indigenise knowledges around disability to address intersectional disadvantage and disrupt ongoing colonisation. In line with this, she is passionate about First Nations perspectives of inclusion and sustainability.

Mrs. Gaala Watson - UQ Business School
Gaala is a Gangalu and Birri-Gubba (Wirri) woman, born and raised in Brisbane. A graduate of the Murri School, she holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Australian History from Deakin University's Institute of Koorie Education, a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Griffith University and a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Research form The University of Melbourne. Gaala’s current role is in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship discipline at the UQ Business school as an associate lecturer and PhD candidate, where her research focuses on Aboriginal Governance in southeast Queensland.

When the personal is political: Formulation and treatment of mental health struggles in gender minorities using Schema Therapy

(October 2023 - 30 minutes)

Schema Therapy, an integrative psychotherapy, addresses pervasive life patterns by identifying early maladaptive schemas arising from unmet core emotional needs. These needs, including protection, security, nurturance, and acceptance, shape a resilient adult psyche, with particular significance placed on affirming one's gender identity during formative childhood years.

For LGBTQIA+ individuals, societal stigma often leads to adverse formative experiences rooted in their sexual and gender expression, potentially resulting in schemas linked to disconnection/rejection. Schema Therapy offers a powerful avenue for healing through emotionally corrective experiences.

Therapists working with marginalized communities must expand their focus beyond individual and family of origin issues to include social and cultural factors. Underrepresentation of therapists with marginalized identities may create therapeutic blind spots and biases, potentially affecting treatment effectiveness.

This presentation endeavors to explore how clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and those providing therapy to sexual and gender minorities can develop treatment approaches that actively challenge biases and incorporate social and cultural factors into every facet of therapy, from formulation to treatment implementation.

Speaker Bio:
Xi Liu - Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer
Dr Xi Liu (they/she) is a Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer. Xi is passionate about working with clients from LGBTQ+ and historically marginalised communities on topics such as grief, trauma, and other mental health concerns. They regularly provide training and supervision across Australia and Asia and present at conferences in Australia and internationally. Xi is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Catholic University where they provide training in Online Therapy and Schema Therapy. They are the co-founder of the SchemX Collective, a passionate community of therapists dedicated to exploring the impact and treatment possibilities for trauma caused by oppression and marginalisation. They also recently published a zine called Noodles and Neurosis, a collection of fiction and nonfiction writing on Schema Therapy, Queer first love and navigating complex family entanglements.

What if better understanding of race helped tackle racism?

(October 2023 - 21 minutes)

In this session, I will explore what is race and racism, particularly, how are they related? This is important because, these concepts continue to shape and structure our social, political, and economic structures although the biological concept of race is debunked. Over the past decade, several organisations, companies, and institutions have been accused of racism by their Black, Indigenous and People of Colour staff.

A Challenging Racism Project survey revealed that 1 in 3 people are impacted by workplace racism. In 2019–20, around 21% of complaints received by the Australian Human Rights Commission were of workplace related racism. While there is a body of scholarly literature on workplace racism in the Australian public sphere, the understanding of racism it deploys is often incomplete. They do not fully explain the roots of racism or why it persists. Workplace racism in Australia is often interpreted as centring around the interpersonal and analysed with research into attitudes, behaviours, and opinions.

Such research pays less attention to the function of race, which is defined here as a ‘technology of power for the management of human difference,’ as explained by Lentin (2020). This definition helps explain how race persists and its adaptive capabilities. The aim of the project is to critically investigate and identify the potential epistemic gaps or oversights within current approaches to understanding racism in Australian workplaces.

Speaker Bio:
Gloria Tabi - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist
Gloria’s family consist of white and Black ancestry by marriage, which gives her a broad understanding and lived-experience of both sides of the spectrum. As a Black African-Australian woman, Gloria brings well-grounded knowledge and experience of the impacts presented in race and gender identities.
Gloria is an Author of Inclusive Teams & Workplaces: Everyone Wins!! Gloria wrote this book to assist leaders become aware of the unique racial barriers faced by some of their staff due to racism and how to fix it by changing systems not people. Gloria established EVERYDAY INCLUSION to work with leaders to achieve inclusivity for their workplace. She’s also a Founder of VoiceEverydayRacism which gives a platform to those on the receiving end of racism to voice these issues for Australians to learn. Gloria is currently completing her Master of Research, specialising in Social Analysis on Race, Inequalities and Anti-Racism at WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

The Opportunities and Limits on Digitised Radical Archives

(October 2023 - 27 minutes)

Digitisation is a major part of archival practice and historical research today, including radical and labour history. There has been much enthusiasm for the increased digitisation of radical, left-wing and labour historical material because it helps people understand the history of such movements. Digitising radical historical material allows for many voices from below to be heard and challenge dominant narratives about past events and struggles. Through these digitisation projects, we can locate the thoughts and feelings of the trade unionist, the anarchist agitator, the anti-colonial rebel or the anti-war protestor, to name but a few.

However there are limits to this push for digitisation of radical historical material. Institutions such as libraries, archives and universities in the Global North generally have more funding and infrastructure to support the digitisation. Institutions in the Global South often do not have the same levels of support to make archival material available online, which creates a gap in what is available to researchers. This means that certain voices are still not represented in the online archives.

Speaker Bio:
Evan Smith - Lecturer in History. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Flinders University
Dr Evan Smith is a Lecturer in History at Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow (History) with the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on political extremism, social movements, national security and borders in Britain, Australia, Ireland and southern Africa.

How undergraduate and postgraduate students who register with disability experience inclusion at a regional, geographically dispersed Australian university

(October 2023 - 30 minutes)

Access to, and participation in higher education have historically been allocated to the elite or privileged. Universities have been known for who they exclude rather than who they include. Since the 1990s, Australian government policy has aimed to widen the participation of six previously under-represented cohorts in higher education. One of those cohorts is people with disability. Between 2014 and 2019, the enrolment of students who registered with disability at Australian universities increased by 44.4%, yet government funding to support that student cohort greatly decreased. This funding decrease occurred alongside a political agenda that positioned disability as a burden, which was publicly evidenced when the 2015 Federal Minister for Social Services Christian Porter tweeted the words “Disability burden $17bn a year”.

Using an exploratory case study methodology, this research undertook a mixed methods approach to explore how undergraduate and postgraduate students who registered with disability at an Australian university, experienced inclusion. The case study site is a regional geographically dispersed university that promotes inclusiveness as one of its institutional values.

Data collection included an integrated narrative literature review, a policy and key document scan, online surveys, interviews and focus groups. The research focused on two cohorts: students who were registered with disability at the inclusion and accessibility service, and all staff at the case study site. All staff were invited to participate as each staff member was considered a possible point of contact for students with disability.

At the time of the research, 596 students were registered with disability. With university permission, the university email system was accessed to circulate email invitations to both cohorts. Invitations included links to online surveys and both cohorts were asked to self-nominate to participate in a one-on-one online interview. Students were also asked to self-nominate to participate in an online focus group. Of the 596 students registered with disability, 154 completed the survey, 46 completed interviews and 12 students participated in focus groups. Of the 2 500 staff who received emails, 67 staff completed the survey and 22 staff completed interviews.

Analysis of the data exposed ableist systems and attitudes created experiences of stigma for some students. The institutional promise of inclusiveness was not matched with appropriate and sufficient resources which created tensions for both cohorts. Staff practice in relation to inclusion was largely informed by their personal value systems as opposed to policy driven, which saw inconsistencies in how staff supported students. An outcome of the research was the development of a set of guidelines that the university can implement to better inform policy and practice in relation to the experience of inclusion for students with disability. These guidelines recommend that students with disability are invited as partners in the design of policy and systems and to inform practice.

This research explored how undergraduate and postgraduate students who registered with disability at an Australian university experienced inclusion during their higher education journey. Findings show that some students experienced stigma and it is recommended that inviting students as partners in the design of policy and systems could improve how inclusion could occur in practice.

Speaker Bio:
JulieMann-Nolan CQ University
My professional experience includes working for over 20 years in the community sector in management roles in NGOs in rural and regional Queensland. I have also worked in the higher education sector for over a decade, predominantly as a research worker with several inter-disciplinary research teams that included research teams led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics. I have also worked as a Student Equity Officer at a Queensland university. My primary research interests include equity for people with disability; research that prioritises the needs of First Nations people; the lived experience of social apartheid in a contemporary Australian context and the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. I am currently completing a PhD that explored the experiences of inclusion for undergraduate and post-graduate students with disability. For the last three years I have worked pro bono with the Municipality of Argyle in Nova Scotia, Canada assisting the Municipality with the development of their accessibility plan and reviews of accessibility related policies. My personal experience includes being the parent of a young man with cerebral palsy and assisting him to have a good life which has involved navigating and challenging

Collecting and Using the Archives of Activism

(October 2023 - 32 minutes)

The Australian National University Archives hold a unique combination of research archives. As well as being the repository for the historical records of the Australian National University, Australia’s only national university, the ANU Archives holds nationally significant research archives from Australian business, the labour movement, responses to HIV/AIDS, and the Pacific region. Threaded through this range of collecting areas are the evidence of activism and protest by individuals and organisations. University Archivist, Kathryn Dan, will describe the types of archives held at ANU, how they came to be collected, some of the highlights within collections and how they are used in research of many kinds.

Speaker Bio:
Kathryn Dan - University Archivist. Australian National University
Kathryn Dan is University Archivist at the Australian National University. She manages the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (ANU Archives) which makes accessible the nationally significant research archives of Australian business and labour, the Pacific Research Archives, the University’s archives and the National AIDS Archive. Kathryn has extensive experience in archives, records and libraries having held senior information management roles at the University of Melbourne, National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia and Monash University.
 

Gale in Conversation with Rachel Vagts and Abby Hoverstock from the Denver Public Library

(October 2023 - 29 minutes)

The Denver Public Library is the public library system of the City and County of Denver and includes 25 branch locations, two bookmobiles, and the Denver Central Library. The library's collection totals more than 2 million items, including books, reference materials, movies, music, and archival collections. Of that total, more than 350,000 items comprise the Special Collections and Archives Department that includes books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and ephemera. Founded in 1935, the Special Collections and Archives department has grown to become one of the finest collections documenting the history of the American West, the American Conservation movement, the historic Tenth Mountain Division of the US Army and the history of African Americans in the American West.

Speaker Bios:
Abby Hoverstock - Senior Archivist, Western History and Genealogy. Denver Public Library
Abby Hoverstock is a Senior Archivist in the Special Collections and Archives at Denver Public Library. She oversees an archives team that collects, accessions and describes archival collections, and provides access and outreach to customers with a wide range of research skills and experience. A 20+ year staff member, she recently implemented an Archives Apprenticeship program and a Diversity Audit of DPL’s Special Collections. Abby holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Colorado College, an MH in Humanities from the University of Colorado, Denver, and an MLIS from Emporia State University.

Rachel Vagts - Special Collections and Archives Manager. Denver Public Library
Rachel Vagts is the Manager of Special Collections and Archives at Denver Public Library. She holds a master degree in Library and Information Studies with a concentration in Archival Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelors in history and political science from Gustavus Adolphus College. An archivist with over 25 years of experience, she previously held positions at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Maryland, Luther College and Berea College. Rachel was the 75th President of the Society of American Archivists from 2020-2021 and served as the director of the Archives Leadership Institute from 2013-2018.

Symposium Closing: An interview with Seth Cayley

(October 2023 - 10 minutes)

Seth Caley. V.P. Product Global Academic. Gale

“Desperate for Help”: FTM Resource Sharing and Social Organizing in Canada and the US, 1980-2005

(October 2023 - 22 minutes)

This presentation examines the history of female-to-male trans resource sharing efforts, focusing on how trans men assisted one another in accessing gender affirming care and social communities. I will trace the proliferation of FTM communities to the organization of social and support groups across Canada and the US, beginning in 1980. These groups, I argue, served as a touchstone for accessing gender affirming care and social community.

Speaker Bio:
Elio Colavito - University of Toronto

Elio Colavito (he/they) is a white transmasculine settler, interdisciplinary scholar, and PhD candidate in the Department of History with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. His research centers transmasculine histories of care, mutual aid, and community formation in 20th-century Canada and the United States. With support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto, Elio works to make a usable past accessible to trans communities.

Navigating the Gale Support page

(Tech Talk July 2022, 32 minutes)

The Gale Support Page is a freely accessible page to help get the most from your investment with no-cost support. Hundreds of choices include everything from direct URLs, MARC records, database icons, promotional and instructional materials and technical support documents.

Integration of Gale products in Learning Management Systems 

(Tech Talk September 2024, 34 minutes)

Library resources ideally had to be able to be integrated into the LMS to provide a more seamless approach for both students and teachers to access content.
This talk looks at at what Gale products can be integrated into the LMS, and the steps to do this.

How to make you Gale resources more discoverable

(Tech Talk July 2024, 35 minutes)

Using Gale's Cross Searching Platforms 

(Tech Talk March 2024.  30 minutes)

Whether your institution uses Gale Primary Source archives, Gale OneFile databases, Gale in Context databases or Gale eBooks; we have platforms where your Gale products can be cross-searched with each other.
This webinar looks at using the Gale PowerSearch, Gale Literature & Gale Primary Sources cross-search platforms.

How to access your Gale statistics reports and setting up and scheduling recurring reports using the Gale admin reports portal

(Tech Talk June 2024, 32 minutes)
Statistics are such an important part of understanding what and how your online products are being used. 
This webinar covers the types of statistical reports can be run for your Gale products through the Gale Usage Dashboard, and the Gale Admin Statistics portal, how to set up and run them and how to schedule reports to be automatically run each month

Researching Family History using Gale Historical Newspapers

(Tech Talk August 2024.  33 minutes)

Effective searching techniques across Gale resources

(Tech Talk October 2022, 34 minutes)

A search engine, like Google, uses computer algorithms to search the Internet and find websites that match the keywords you enter.
Gale databases and archives have highly organized information due to the metadata in the back end of the product that allows you to find information with high relevance to search terms.  Robust metadata tools allow you to narrow efficiently by dozens of categories. 

Customizing your Gale eBook collection

(Tech Talk February 2024, 28 minutes)

How to access MARC records for your Gale resources

(Tech Talk May 2024.  28 minutes)

 MARC records are available for Gale databases and eBooks, and Primary Source Archives. Find out how to access these MARC recods

Accessibility features available in Gale databases

(Tech Talk April 2024.  33 minutes)

Integrating Gale LibGuides into your AtoZ list of resources

(Tech Talk Nov 2023 - 33 minutes)

Marketing materials on the Gale Support Page that support social media

(Tech Talk Sept 2023 - 27 minutes)

Support Tools: Student Research Tools and  Gale Learning Centres

(Tech Talk October 2024. 33 minutes)

This Tech talk looks at the teaching and learning support we can provide to help students, teachers/instructors and librarians use Gale resources when undertaking a research project.