2019 Catalogue
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When you explore Gale Primary Sources, you discover unique primary source content—meticulously indexed and thoughtfully developed to bring the humanities to life in remarkable new ways. ™ Image: Various Sources, Gale Primary Sources EMPOWER RESEARCH GOING BEYOND TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES Seth Cayley, Vice President, Gale Primary Sources In combination with powerful search technologies, Gale Primary Sources brings the thoughts, words, and actions of past centuries into the present. Access to authoritative content is essential to academic research. At Gale, our passion is giving researchers the means to discover fresh insights quickly and effectively. That’s why for nearly two decades, we have been preserving and extending access to scholarly research materials through our groundbreaking digitisation program. Now named Gale Primary Sources, this collection is the world’s largest selection of rare and unique digital archives. We partner with source libraries and faculty advisors to create To move beyond the Anglo-centric view common across digital milestone resources, such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online archives, we are expanding upon some of our most notable and State Papers Online. These rare archives offer unique windows collections. Building on the China and the Modern World series, which into the literary, political, and social culture of past generations. shows how China transformed itself to the superpower it is today, is Today, as the twentieth century becomes a larger part of historical a new collection, Diplomacy and Political Secrets. This unique archive study and research, we increasingly focus on content that supports is the third in the series and focuses on the daunting questions researchers’ understanding of twentieth-century institutions, around China’s borders, espionage in China by the West, and China’s topics, and themes. For example, our Archives of Sexuality & Gender participation in both world wars. series reveals the voices and stories of previously marginalised, All of our collections are meticulously indexed and accessible hidden communities—with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ history through the Gale Primary Sources platform. This technology improves and culture—while examining changing attitudes toward sex and discovery, analysis, and workflow while setting the bar for digital censorship more broadly. The release of our third module in the primary source analysis and data visualisation with tools like cross- series this year will include literature from the Kinsey Institute, the archival searching and term clusters. To advance research even New York Academy of Medicine, and the British Library’s “Private further, the data from these archives can be explored in new ways Case” collection of restricted materials. using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based digital scholarship We also aim to shed light on today’s political polarisation in the platform developed in close partnership with leaders across the English-speaking world. With the political centre under concerted digital humanities. attack from radical voices on both the Left and Right, our new Only Gale provides this depth of unique digital collections, integrated Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century archive with the tools researchers need to cross search hundreds of years provides important historical context on the ideologies and of primary sources. Our hope is that, by pushing past traditional movements that brought us from the political fringes of the 1940s to boundaries to change how people research, we will lead scholars the seismic events of recent years. to deeper and more meaningful discoveries. We look forward to The year 2018 also marks the release of two major collaborations learning about yours. between Gale and the American Antiquarian Society. The first of these unique collections is American Amateur Newspapers, a form of nineteenth century self-publishing that is regarded as the social media of its time—allowing anyone with the passion to communicate (or an axe to grind) to promote their ideas. The second collaboration, Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, offers more than half a million pages of never-before-digitised publications depicting the social, cultural, and religious life of America in its first hundred years. SUBJECTS OF STUDY TABLE OF 08 African American Studies 11 American Studies CONTENTS 16 Asian Studies 18 British Studies 26 Business and Economics 30 European Studies 32 Gender and Sexuality Studies 36 Indigenous and Native People’s Studies GALE’S PARTNERSHIP 38 Journalism and Media Studies 12 WITH THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 40 Latin American Studies 42 Law, Government and Political Science 50 Literature 54 Middle Eastern Studies 56 History of Science ARCHIVES OF SEXUALITY 34 & GENDER FEATURES 04 The Gale Primary Sources Platform 07 Gale Digital Scholar Lab 60 Archives Unbound POLITICAL EXTREMISM AND RADICALISM IN THE 49 TWENTIETH CENTURY 66 Title Index 70 Get Support 71 How to Order 3 CHANGING THE FUTURE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH THROUGH TECHNOLOGY At Gale, we use advancements in technology to take our commitment to preservation and increased access to historical collections to the next level. We create new and enhanced ways for researchers to interact with primary sources for an all-around better research experience. Through the largest digitisation initiatives ever undertaken, Gale helps researchers across the globe gain unlimited access to a wide range of preeminent historical archives. Nearly all of our essential collections are now available on the Gale Primary Sources platform. This single search environment enables researchers to search across millions of documents at once and discover connections never previously possible. The collections in this catalogue were meticulously indexed and thoughtfully developed to not only be a digital facsimile of the originals, but to create an enhanced research experience that adapts to advanced digital applications used by today’s researchers. The Gale Primary Sources platform combines fundamental historical content and innovative technology to help academic institutions promote the advancement of historical research by improving discovery, analysis, and workflow. 4 A TRANSFORMATIVE CROSS-SEARCH EXPERIENCE Built upon a foundation of unique primary source archives and the industry’s most reliable metadata, Gale Primary Sources offers today’s researchers an unmatched resource to cross search and explore. We maintain rigorous quality control processes to manually improve data. This allows us to undergo a thorough process of selecting, categorising, and keying document information that leads to the production of robust metadata. As a result, this rich metadata fuels the powerful search technology and data visualisations of the Gale Primary Sources platform to empower all researchers. EXTEND THE REACH OF YOUR RESOURCES Workflow tools help accelerate research and streamline the process of finding original, firsthand content. With analytical tools, researchers can go beyond a close reading of individual documents to make connections and examine information in ways not otherwise possible. SUPPORT INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL SEARCH TOOLS SCHOLARSHIP Researchers can expand and refine search results through Topic Provide supplemental course material that stretches across Finder and Term Frequency, which enable users to discover the many disciplines, such as political science, gender and sexuality context of search terms and uncover hidden connections. studies, philosophy, literature, theatre, history, and area studies. Topic Finder: By grouping SOLUTION FOR RESEARCH commonly occurring themes, this AT ALL LEVELS tool reveals hidden connections within search terms and leads to The online platform features an intuitive search interface and an the discovery and integration of extensive offering of introductory material as well as advanced diverse and relevant information. text analysis tools and a large corpus of primary source material suited for in-depth, critical analysis. CITATION TOOLS Integrated directly into the user’s workflow, formatted citations Term Frequency: Shows the can be easily exported from single or multiple documents to frequency of search terms services like EndNote or RefWorks. MLA, APA, and Chicago- within sets of content to identify style citations are supported. central themes and assess how individuals, events, and ideas interact and develop over time. LMS INTEGRATION LMS integration capabilities extend the value of your Gale Primary Sources collections to meet instruction needs and more closely support coursework. Libraries can provide direct access to primary source material within faculty and student workflow. 5 A HOLISTIC SOLUTION Academic librarians have long been at the forefront of identifying and supporting the changing needs of research and scholarship. With the widespread interest and engagement in digital humanities, that leadership is especially critical to successfully navigate collaboration between faculty and other campus stakeholders. As more practitioners become involved and the scope of programs are defined, librarians will drive successful collaboration. With the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, Gale has created a research platform to help bridge the gap that often exists between primary resources that are available in the library and the research needs and workflows of faculty and students. Digital humanists will be less inclined to bypass the library and seek content from open web sources