American Historical Periodicals
ONLY GALE PROVIDES COMPLEMENTARY ACCESS TO SIX MILLION PAGES OF ESSENTIAL HISTORICAL PERIODICALS
Available at no cost, as part of a historic partnership between Gale and the American Antiquarian Society, Gale is extending complimentary access to more than six million pages of American periodicals providing a level of access to American history that was previously unavailable. Any institution that owns at least one Gale Primary Source collection is eligible to receive full, free access to American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part I-V. The collection offers a highly comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America. These periodicals present history through the eyes of those who experienced it, showing its impact on citizens from all walks of life.
HISTORIC PARTNERSHIP CREATES NEW RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
This collection helps researchers make connections in American history from a broad range of perspectives. Besides covering a variety of subjects, there are numerous periodicals aimed at specific audiences based on criteria such as age, gender, ethnicity, occupation, politics, or beliefs. In addition, the Gale Primary Sources cross-search environment expands those connections to hundreds of millions of pages of additional primary source materials.
GALE TECHNOLOGY UNLEASHES NEW POTENTIAL
Though this content has been previously published and sold commercially, Gale is providing additional value to the complementary content through the Gale Primary Sources platform. The platform, created to support historical research, features visual search tools, robust metadata to power those searches, and advanced browse functionality.
REMOVING BARRIERS TO DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
Digital humanists will be delighted to discover this content will be available for text-analysis in Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab—a new, cloud-based research environment that brings historical content together with text analysis tools to remove barriers to digital scholarship. Providing this content in an environment where researchers can build a custom corpus of text for analysis adds immense value to the content and creates new research opportunities.
PART OF A GREATER PARTNERSHIP
Gale and the American Antiquarian Society have entered an exclusive partnership to digitize the Society’s current and future periodical holdings. By including the Society’s holdings alongside our existing collections, Gale fulfills a core mission: to develop outstanding research collections for use by scholars and students in universities and libraries worldwide. Pairing the Society’s periodical holdings with Gale’s pioneering primary source interrogation tools, opens new research opportunities. Users will have new ways to explore and interact with a documentary history of the American people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the twentieth century.
FEATURED PARTNER
Over the years, we have been impressed by Gale leadership in the library market, by the strength of their editorial process, and their innovative approach to the development of digital tools. American Historical Periodicals is an important project for the American Antiquarian Society, representing decades of collecting, cataloging, conserving, and digitizing, and we are pleased to have a solid partner in Gale to help us take it to the next generation of researchers.
Platform Features & Tools
Gale Technology Unleashes New Potential
Though this content has been previously published and sold commercially, Gale is providing additional value to the complementary content through the Gale Primary Sources platform. The platform, created to support historical research, features visual search tools, robust metadata to power those searches, and advanced browse functionality.
Integrated Workflow Tools
User-generated tags and annotations, Zotero compatability, and user accounts allow researchers to easily collect, cite, and group sources, tags, and annotations.
Removing Barriers to Digital Scholarship
Digital humanists will be delighted to discover this content will be available for text-analysis in Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab—a new, cloud-based research environment that brings historical content together with text analysis tools to remove barriers to digital scholarship. Providing this content in an environment where researchers can build a custom corpus of text for analysis adds immense value to the content and creates new research opportunities.
Reviews & Testimonials
We chose Gale as our partner because of their commitment to helping us share the rich periodical holdings of the American Antiquarian Society as widely as possible among libraries of all sorts and their enthusiasm for developing state-of-the-art technology tools to help researchers to unlock these remarkable (and heretofore underutilized) resources of nineteenth-century journals and magazines.
