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The company is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history, and social science.
Contemporary Authors is a reference work that has been published by Gale since 1962. The work provides short biographies and bibliographies of contemporary and near-contemporary writers and is a major source of information on over 116,000 living and deceased authors from around the world. [1]
Gale is Cengage's library reference arm and specializes in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The company creates and maintains databases that are published online, in print, as e-books and in microform.
It is considered generally reliable. This includes BBC News, BBC documentaries, and the BBC History site (on BBC Online). However, this excludes BBC projects that incorporate user-generated content (such as h2g2 and the BBC Domesday Project) and BBC publications with reduced editorial oversight (such as Collective).
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of books published in Great Britain during the 18th century. [1] [2]Gale, an education publishing company in the United States, assembled the collection by digitally scanning microfilm reproductions of 136,291 titles.
Historians carry out original research, often using primary sources. Historians often have a PhD or advanced academic training in historiography, but may have an advanced degree in a related social science field or a domain specific field; other scholars and reliable sources will typically use the descriptive label historian to refer to an historian.
The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia [2] produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group. [1] First published in 1935, [3] and continuing its relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; [2] the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000.
Reliable scholarship – Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses.