In 2022, Gale partnered with the Committee on LGBT History to fund fellowships for LGBT History scholars, providing them with access to Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender and Gale Digital Scholar Lab for a period of six months. Read their reports to learn more.
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Within the Learning Center, Gale provides instructors with:
Three ready-to-use Sample Projects provide students, instructors, and librarians with completed project models that are situated within the context of a narrative format. Users can be facilitated through the research process while also being provided with expanded information to deepen user understanding of each phase of the research process.
The Sample Projects are designed to promote the importance of Inquiry-Based learning for best digital humanities and research pedagogical practices. As a result, instructors are equipped with guided models of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab research project workflow, as well as a parallel Critical Thinking supplement to provide discussion around higher-order thinking objectives for each project. Instructors may use each project as a model individually and break down each phase, reviewing the process, and discussion the outcomes as products of specific topics and/or archives. The expandable text within each Sample Project allows instructors to take a deeper dive with students in each phase of the workflow, provoking thought around important questions to be asked, alternative research questions, and additional steps in the process that might be useful to advancing the project.
Since no Gale Digital Scholar Lab project is the same, instructors can also use these Sample Projects together to compare and contrast differences across content, research questions, clean configurations, tool setup, and visualizations. The Critical Thinking supplements can be used to help facilitate these contrasts and illuminate the stickiness that is often involved within the research process. With that said, the Sample Projects can be used as content supplements with corresponding syllabi units and be broken down within each unit, and then be reviewed as a whole culmination project to piece together all each of your Lab learning objectives.
Twelve datasets are provided for exploration, education, and experimentation. Gathering sufficient data of a high-enough quality for text mining is one of the major challenges of this type of research methodology. The goal in providing these datasets is to provide packages of material in support of computationally inflected research and teaching. The sample datasets provided have not been cleaned. Download the datasets from the Learning Center.