Welcome to Gale Library and Reference! We publish world-leading information, research and analysis. Our e-research and educational books are relied on by university and school students, libraries, business and everyone interested in finding out more about the world.
Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organisation of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.
Gale is part of Cengage Learning. The Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted reference brands as Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Primary Source Media.
Gale also serves the K-12 market with its U•X•L, Greenhaven Press, Lucent Books and Sleeping Bear Press imprints.
Thorndike Press, Christian Large Print, Wheeler Publishing, Five Star and Large Print Press serve libraries' large print collections.
Major brands include
InfoTrac, Gale Virtual Reference Library — the company's eBook platform — and the unparalleled Gale Digital Collections such as
Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organisations — including Looksmart, Borders, Dow Jones and Thomson Financial — presently enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale.
Gale worldwide headquarters are based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices in the USA, and in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Australia / New Zealand, we have offices in
Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.
