The Gale In Context family of resources provides students with current, authoritative, media-rich information. Each topically focused database integrates trusted academic content with a diverse array of periodical titles, reference content, audio files, video clips, and news titles.
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.
Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America to the first stirrings of the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the War on Terror.
Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
Each Gale In Context resource offers hundreds of topically focused Issue and Topic Pages. These pages cover a broad spectrum of topics, issues, countries, states, eras, events and more. They have been carefully curated by editorial staff to provide a diverse variety of authors and viewpoints.
Each Gale In Context resource contains it's own curated section of Issue or Topic Pages covering various subjects like 'Conflict and Diplomacy" in Gale In Context: Global Issues, "Literature and the Arts" in Gale In Context: College, and "African American Perspectives" in Gale In Context: U.S. History.
Each topic page acts as a research starting point and content hub for a particular subject, such as "Women in World War I" or "Access to Health Care". Each hub includes an unbiased, academic overview as well as a wide array of related material, such as academic journals, videos, audio files, reference material, news articles, images, statistics, primary sources, case overviews, links to trustworthy outside websites and more.
Gale In Context: Global Issues also provides viewpoint articles which provide a variety of different views on an issue.
Topic Pages also offer the ability to search within a topic page for another key word related to the broader topic in order to quickly access a smaller, more targeted list of results.
Example: Search for "anti-Asian hate" on the COVID-19 topic page if you are researching how COVID 19 impacted the rise in recent anti-Asian hate speech and crimes.
This feature allows you to quickly access, review and compare highly relevant content in order to develop a well-rounded understanding of your research topic. This content features a diverse array of authors, publications, and media types.
Search Examples with diverse perspectives from the above search:
Topic Pages are curated by our editors to include a diverse array of perspectives, including material written by and about marginalized communities.
Gale In Context: Global Issues offers a unique Browse Map tool which allows researchers to target a specific country on an interactive map in order to quickly locate Topic Pages related to that country. Topic pages, including Country topic pages, will provide a quick pathway to locating content from a diverse array of authors across a variety of issues impacting a set region.
Example: Select "Ukraine" form the Map and then select the Ukraine Topic Page to locate quick facts about the country as well as a wide variety of content types, publication titles, video's and more. Select "News" and filter by "publication title" to locate news publications published outside of the U.S. for an international perspective, such as "Daily News", published in the Czech Republic and "Ukraine General Newswire", published in Ukraine. Narrow your search further by using the "Search Within" filter to search for a topic or keyword within the selected publications.
This tool takes the titles, subjects, and approximately the first 100 words from a subset of your top results and feeds them into an algorithm. Keywords shown in the graphics are those found most often in the text with your search term [Red = more returns, green = less].
The Topic Finder results for “veteran mental health” will bring up broadly connected subjects like “mental health services,” along with more refined results such "Veterans Byline". Within this subject you can narrow your results further by selecting "PTSD" from the additional subjects shown in order to locate 12 veteran-written articles about PTSD and it's treatment and impact within the veteran community.
