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ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Marydee Ojala |
A New Presidential Face at Thomson Gale: Gordon T. Macomber The new publishing entity's president discusses his views on investing in technology to create a common platform, moving from traditional print to online delivery of information, expanding the virtual library and more. |
Information Today September 7, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Gale Introduces New Product Platform The company is taking the one-stop model of the "resource center" (an aggregation of periodical, reference, and primary content pulled together) and expanding it to encompass all of its wide-ranging content. |
Information Today May 7, 2007 |
Thomson Gale Launches New Social Issues Site Thomson Gale has introduced a new reference Web site called WiseTo Social Issues, a site dedicated to comprehensively exploring today's hottest and most divisive topics. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 |
Fla. Program Aids Hurricane-Ravaged Schools, Libraries The State Library and Archives of Florida and Thomson Gale have launched a collaborative program that gives those K-12 schools and public libraries damaged by the hurricanes free access to the Thomson Gale online subscription databases. |
Information Today September 30, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary. |
Information Today April 1, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Group, Dialog Announce Library Marketing Alliance Two Thomson Corp. subsidiaries, Gale Group and Dialog Corp., have announced that they will begin a comprehensive, long-term joint-marketing effort designed to reach the academic and public library markets worldwide... |
Information Today September 25, 2000 Barbara Quint |
Thomson's Gale Group Acquires K.G. Saur from Reed Elsevier Thomson continues its empire-building with another acquisition. This time Thomson's Gale Group has purchased K.G. Saur, the prominent German publisher of biographical and other scholarly reference books, from Reed Elsevier... |
Information Today October 7, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale ReferenceLink Brings Dialog Back to Public/Academic Library Market Thomson Corp.'s Gale Group subsidiary has a strong presence in the public and academic library markets -- markets that Dialog Corp., another Thomson subsidiary, has generally abandoned for years. Dialog's data is now coming back, but will be supplied and supported by Gale. |
Information Today April 15, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Expands InfoTrac College Edition In a move designed to provide better information resources for students, Thomson Corp. has expanded the online information available to purchasers of textbooks from Thomson publishers. |
Information Today January 24, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
Information Today April 9, 2007 |
Thomson Gale Introduces Demographic Tool for Libraries Thomson Gale has introduced a new online resource called DemographicsNow Library Edition that is designed to offer public and academic libraries an affordable geographic business-intelligence solution. |
Information Today June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
Information Today June 27, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Varying Content Commitments from Vendors for Yahoo! Search Most content providers allow the search service only limited access to their libraries for resale. But they all hope the service will bring increased user access and sales. |
Information Today October 6, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Gale Databases Link to Google Image Search Responding to demands from users, Gale Group, a subsidiary of Thomson, has created an easy transparent bridge from most of its InfoTrac products to Google's image collection. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today December 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Cambridge Information Group to Acquire ProQuest Information and Learning... EBSCO Snags Exclusive with The Paris Review... Thomson Gale Adds Publishing Partners to Virtual Reference Library... etc. |
Information Today October 16, 2000 Barbara Quint |
InfoTrac OneFile Gale Group's InfoTrac OneFile Creates Web-Based Periodical Collection for Libraries... |
Information Today March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
Information Today June 2004 |
NewsBytes Thomson Gale Announces Acquisitions... ProQuest, Palgrave Macmillan Extend Agreement... Ingenta Signs Publishers, Partners with Google... SLA Moves to Alexandria, Va... etc. |
Information Today April 7, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Thomson Learning Moves into Coursepack Market Two subsidiaries of Thomson Learning, Gale Group and South-Western, have announced a marketing launch of electronic coursepacks for the academic market. |
Information Today May 21, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Thomson Learning and Gale Under New Management Following Sale Apax Partners and OMERS Capital partners plan to keep the company intact, rather than selling off sections of the multisubsidiary publisher. |
Information Today April 3, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Elsevier Launches Drug Tracking Tool... EBSCO's NoveList Adds NextReads E-Mail Service... Thomson Gale Teams Up with Experian to Provide BizInfo Online... |
Information Today August 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Emerald Management Xtra Launches in Beta... PubMed Central to Offer Historical Medical Journals... Thomson Gale Launches Science Resource Center... |
Information Today July 30, 2007 |
Thomson Learning to Become Cengage Learning Thomson Learning has announced that it will change its name to Cengage Learning. |
Information Today April 23, 2007 |
Thomson Gale to Leverage Groxis' Technology for PowerSearch This strategic partnership will provide enhanced search capabilities to Gale's users of its PowerSearch products, including K-12 schools and public and academic libraries. |
Information Today April 4, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Gale Quietly Rolls Out New Business Service Goliath, developed in connection with ECNext, lets individuals purchase business information by either pay-per-view transaction or subscription. Goliath features articles, company profiles, business reference content, market information, and more. |
Information Today December 22, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Gale Acquires HighBeam Research to Connect With End Users Gale has been a content provider for HighBeam for many years, so a close relationship was already in place. HighBeam is highly regarded for bringing users credible, high-quality information on the open web. |
Information Today September 2004 |
NewsBytes VNU Exhibitions Europe Acquires Library + information Show... SwetsWise Welcomes BioMed Central's Open-Access Journals...Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor... etc. |
Information Today June 2001 Paula J. Hane |
Dialog CEO Optimistic About Opportunities Thomson Corp. purchased Dialog from its British owners on May 4, 2000, and in November named a seasoned Thomson executive as Dialog's new president and CEO. Now Roy M. Martin Jr. has had 6 months at the helm... |
Information Today February 3, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Consulta Spanish-Language Collection Launched by Gale Thomson's Gale chose the American Library Associaton's Midwinter Meeting to debut Consulta, its first Spanish-language Resource Center. The new product combines reference content from Oceano Grupo Editorial, some of new online to the U.S., with Gale reference content. |
Information Today May 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Search, Content, and More National Library Week... Three search conferences being held in May... Enterprise Search Update... ProQuest Information and Learning announced... etc. |
Information Today January 22, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Thomson Business Intelligence Dismantling Thomson Business Intelligence, created from a 2005 reorganization of assets previously assigned to Dialog and reporting to Thomson Legal & Regulatory, has begun dismantling its operations and disposing of its products. |
Information Today July 3, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson Gale Extends AccessMyLibrary.com Service... Alacra Offers Premium Content Web Feeds... LexisNexis Launches Advanced Government Solutions... |
Information Today June 17, 2002 Barbara Quint |
Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles InfoTrac Holdings Gale Group has announced a mammoth 20-million-page project that will bring to the Web most books published in the English language during the 18th century. |
Information Today May 6, 2014 |
Gale's New Technology Boosts Research Relevance Gale, part of Cengage Learning, launched a new technology that links current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles with contextual references from within ebooks on Gale Virtual Reference Library |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
Information Today July 15, 2010 Dan Tonkery |
Cengage Learning Announces Streamlined Operating Structure So what do librarians think about this move? |
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations? |
Information Today May 17, 2012 |
Wolper to Distribute Gale Products to Special Library Market Wolper, the first subscription agency to sell Gale products, will expand distribution of key resources by offering them to libraries and individuals within corporations, medical and healthcare facilities, government agencies, and nonprofit institutions. |
Information Today January 24, 2008 Barbara Quint |
"Hey, Buddy! Want to Read A Good Book?" Cengage Gale's Books & Authors Despite the rise of recommendation engines on every online bookstore site, readers' advisory services still persist as a basic function of public library reference operations. |
Information Today September 22, 2008 Paula J. Hane |
Gale Aims to Streamline Content Acquisition With New Online Marketplace Gale is making it easy for all kinds of businesses -- website owners, media outlets, publishers, research database providers, internet startups, and more -- to license just the content they need for their site or service. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula J. Hane |
The Latest on Enterprise Search Products, E-Books, and More There should be a steady supply of news to report, as vendors continue to announce new products and services through the end of the year. Here's a wrap-up of some of the news from the past month. |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Information Today February 1, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition Questia's book content is a clear attraction for Gale, adding scholarly content from leading publishers to support learning in high school and college -- a great complement to Gale's extensive reference content. |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
Gale Gives Students Easier Access to Primary Sources; Starts Arabic Digitization Project Gale will integrate Gale Artemis: Primary Sources into Cengage Learning's MindTap elearning platform, which will bring library content directly into students' learning paths. |