Gale Accelerate is the culmination of a lot of thinking at Gale about how we could help you adapt to the dramatic shifts in teaching, learning and research we have all witnessed over the past year. Firstly, we thought about your library budget and the pressures placed upon it; secondly, how we could support the different forms of teaching and learning that learners now expect.
In answer to these questions, we devised the Gale Accelerate programme. It provides you with instant access to your wish list of world-class digital archives, enabling your researchers to generate more original research, your instructors to adapt quickly to innovative approaches in teaching, and your students to acquire the digital skills they need for the 21st century workplace.
And the goal? To support you in strengthening your reputation as a leader in research, teaching, and learning, attracting high calibre staff and students in an increasingly competitive landscape.
The Economist Historical Archive, 2016-2020
Financial Times Historical Archive, 2010-2021
The Making of the Modern World: Part III, 1890-1945
The Making of the Modern World: Part IV, 1800-1890
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019
Women's Studies Archive: Issues and Identities
The drop-in Dissertation Clinic gives your users the opportunity to receive personal guidance on how to find relevant primary source material for their dissertation within your Gale Primary Sources platform. It’s simple: users bring their topics, get their sources and then go, continuing their research further.
Front of Class sessions give your users at all levels the opportunity to learn how to get the most from the Gale Primary Sources platform for their learning and research. We give users, whether a few individuals or a few hundred, a tour of the core features and functionality of the Gale Primary Sources platform.
Our archives are diverse and our platforms are constantly evolving, so we want to ensure that your staff and students are kept up-to-date on ways to get the most from them. We offer annual product training for all of your stakeholders through our dedicated Trainer, covering the full range of your Gale archives.
All of these support services can be arranged at a time that suits you through your Gale representative, and we can supply promotional support to help you raise awareness of them.
We provide tailored product training for all of our archives, which covers the Gale Primary sources platform and its various tools, as well as any features that are unique to individual archives.
To help you get started, here are some links to online training materials, a guide to our research tools, and some tips and tricks for searching the archives:
Now that your users have access to these archives, it is important that they know they are available. To help you raise awareness, you can download the digital support materials from the list below.
For each archive, you have:
Gale Digital Scholar Lab access is an integral part of Gale Accelerate. As the world’s leading integrated text and data mining solution, the Lab provides significant value to Gale Accelerate customers. A powerful analysis platform that overcomes many of the technical barriers to entry into digital humanities (DH), Gale Digital Scholar Lab enables the integration of DH techniques into every classroom, promoting a deeper relationship with archives and a new lens through which to explore them.
For existing DH researchers, Gale Digital Scholar Lab dramatically reduces the time needed to collect, curate, and clean large content sets, freeing up time to write algorithms and analyse data.
For libraries, as well as supporting the rapidly increasing need to support DH and digital literacy, Gale Digital Scholar Lab can promote new uses of institutional repositories and archives through its ‘content upload’ feature, which allows the ingest of external data that can then be run through the Lab’s analysis pipeline.
Universities all over the world are reaping the benefits of embedding Gale Digital Scholar Lab throughout their humanities and social sciences departments. By using the Lab to promote and expand digital literacy and critical thinking, libraries and faculty are meeting institutional objectives to develop these skills in their student community.
Visit Gale’s Digital Humanities Hub to read more about our work with DH and see case studies of how institutions have used this exciting new tool. As part of Gale Accelerate, you are entitled to support, training and curriculum collaboration to help you get the most out of the Lab, and crucially, to use it to get maximum value from your Gale archives.
For all information about how you can start to incorporate Gale Digital Scholar Lab into your research and teaching, contact Head of Digital Scholarship, Chris Houghton.
ARCHIVES EXPLOREDArchives Explored shows Gale Primary Sources in action. It provides sample curations and long-form studies to demonstrate how the content can be applied to topics, contextual essays to help researchers understand archives and topics they can be applied to, and case studies detailing how they have been used and integrated into various institutions.
Many of our products feature integration capabilities with G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 collaboration tools. These enable users to easily access, share, save, and download content—including highlights, notes, and other e-resources.
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This tutorial shows how to download content to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive from many Gale resources. Watch the video. |
Gale’s proprietary search UI focuses the experience on the data points needed to help users identify content relevant to their needs, encouraging critical evaluation and selection.
Topic Finder
Encourages further exploration through visualizations that group commonly occurring themes to reveal connections. See how it works >
Explore Panel
Highlights “More Like This” recommendations and supporting information of value without detraction from core content.
Smarter Search Results
Provides important evaluative information to support successful user outcomes and help users discover relevant content.
Get Link
Copy persistent URLs at the article level to embed in course syllabi, e-newsletters, LibGuides, etc. View tutorial >
Notes & Highlights
Select and highlight text, add notes, and export so users can keep just the content they need. Take a look >
Citation Tools
Automatically generate APA, MLA, and Chicago citations and export to EasyBib, NoodleTools, ProCite, and more.
Many of our products feature integration capabilities with G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 collaboration tools. These enable users to easily access, share, save, and download content—including highlights, notes, and other e-resources.
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This tutorial shows how to download content to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive from many Gale resources. Watch the video. |
Gale’s LTI 1.0 certification means institutions can access Gale resources within any learning management system (LMS) that supports LTI 1.0. Incorporating Gale resources into an LMS expands access and increases student discovery from within the classroom. Optimized integration with popular platforms and providers, like Canvas and Schoology, allows for the embedding of links or documents directly into assignments, discussions, and more. Gale resources are also compatible with Moodle and Blackboard.
Educators can adopt specific e-resources and content to support their course curriculum, while reducing the steps involved in incorporating Gale content into a course. The permalinks provide reliable access for the entire class and eliminate the need for students to authenticate. This creates a seamless workflow experience for users.
Gale supports the discovery of its online products and databases in the classroom, through the open web, and within library discovery services through platforms like Primo, EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS), MackinVIA, and more. Your library can improve access to your Gale products with a single sign-on through popular services, like Google, Microsoft, ClassLink, and Clever.
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Gale makes it easy for academic researchers to access its scholarly content anytime, anywhere. Through a partnership with Google Scholar, Gale has integrated Google Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) into its Gale Academic OneFile, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, Gale OneFile: Informe Académico, and Gale Literature Resource Center periodical databases, ensuring users seamlessly experience uninterrupted access to its authoritative content, from any off-campus location or device.
Google CASA is an enhanced authentication service that builds upon Google Scholar’s Subscriber Links service. When users log in to Google Scholar on campus, they create an affiliation that follows them off campus. This allows for seamless access to their library’s licensed e-resources from any off-campus location for up to thirty days.
