Looking for a resource to help your personal reading? This is more of a personal resource than an academic one for your classes. Finding a book that interests you can be time-consuming. Match your reading interests with Gale Books and Authors, a reader’s advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists, and more this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?”
An engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
Biography is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography includes over 5,000 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. Reference content is offered alongside videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. This resource is continuously updated to ensure users have access to the latest information.
Gale LegalForms offers a wide selection of essential state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. These forms are used by attorneys and law firms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant, and many others.
Many forms are ideal for supporting legal tasks relevant to business owners, such as filing for copyrights, patents and trademarks, articles of incorporation, licenses, and more.
FORMS & MORE Access a vast collection of official documents, including litigation forms, court samples, checklists, sample letters, and more.
LEGAL TOOLS Support your form use with Legal Definitions, a Law Digest, and Legal Q&A to build your understanding of key areas of law
SEARCH & BROWSE Search for a specific form or topic or click to browse major categories and sample searches.
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material—not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
* Integrated G Suite for Education—Gmail, Classroom, Drive, Docs, and more—allow users to easily save, share, and download articles, which helps educators improve student engagement, encourage collaboration, and foster critical thinking, from anywhere and on any device
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* The Search Assist feature provides suggested search terms as you type
Mobile-responsive design ensures students can access the resources on the devices they use most
* The interface and article translation of over 20 languages, along with Readspeaker technology (text-to-speech) allows text to be read aloud to users
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The acclaimed Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series is an ideal starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations. Students can quickly gain results by searching for a specific author, combining search criteria for a more complex search, or exploring thematic and chronological topics.
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
Provides access to biographies, bibliographic, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journlists, and other writers and includes access to the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), Contemporary Authors (CA), and Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC).
This collection consists of all volumes in the Scribner American Writers series, including: American Writers (the 4-volume base set and all supplements), American Writers Retrospective and American Writers Classics.
The American Writers Supplements include authors who have never been featured in American Writers, while the retrospective volumes re-examine some of the most important and influential writers in the American canon already covered in American Writers.
The classic volumes focus on famous works - many of which are required reading in high schools and colleges. Each Classics volume includes 20-25 accessible essays, each on a single work of American literature. Examples include Toni Morrison\'s "Beloved," J.D. Salinger\'s "Catcher in the Rye" and Stephen Crane\'s "The Red Badge of Courage."
• Contains 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world
• Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context
• Users can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers