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Find sources: "Gale" publisher – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Gale Parent company Cengage Founded 1954; 67 years ago (1954) (as Gale Group) Founder Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr.[1] Country of origin United States Headquarters location Farmington Hills, Michigan Publication types Primary sources, databases, e-books, e-learning, Thorndike Large Print Official website www.gale.com Gale at the University of London School of Advanced Study History Day, October 2017 Gale Cengage headquarters building, Farmington Hills Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan,[2] west of Detroit. It has been a division of Cengage since 2007. The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public, academic, and school libraries, and businesses. The company is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history, and social science. Founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr., the company was acquired by the International Thomson Organization (later the Thomson Corporation) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage. Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History[edit] In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Macmillan Library Reference (including Scribner's Reference, Thorndike Press, Schirmer, Twayne Publishers, and G. K. Hall) from Pearson (which had acquired it from Simon & Schuster in 1998; Macmillan USA was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994).[3] In 2000 it acquired the Munich-based K. G. Saur Verlag, but then sold it to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. On October 25, 2006 Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly divest the Thomson Learning division, because, in the words of Thomson CEO Richard Harrington, "it does not fit with our long-term strategic vision". Thomson has said that it expected this sale to generate approximately $5 billion. Thomson Learning was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for $7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007.[4] Patrick C. Sommers was president of Gale from October 22, 2007,[5] until he retired in 2010. Products[edit] Gale produces hundreds of products, such as Gale Academic OneFile,[6] Biography and Genealogy Master Index,[7] General OneFile, General Reference Center, Sabin Americana (based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana), and World History Collection.[8] Gale print imprints include the reference brands Primary Source Media, Scholarly Resources Inc., Schirmer Reference, St. James Press, The TAFT Group and Twayne Publishers, among others. Five Star Publishing is Gale's fiction imprint, with hundreds of books in print in the Western, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy genres. Gale also sells into the K–12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L, Greenhaven Press, KidHaven Press, Lucent Books, and others.[9] Gale also owns large print publishers Christian Large Print and Wheeler Publishing. See also[edit] Michigan portal Companies portal Education portal Contemporary Authors published by Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography published by Gale Dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Scribner's Dictionary of Scientific Biography published by Scribner's Encyclopaedia Judaica published by Gale Encyclopedia of Associations published by Gale HighBeam Research owned by Gale New Catholic Encyclopedia published by Gale Questia Online Library owned by Gale References[edit] ^ Gale – Helping Libraries Prepare for the 21st Century – inforum.cz – Retrieved February 23, 2009 ^ "Privacy Statement and Terms of Use." Gale. Retrieved on July 8, 2010. ^ Hane, Paula J. (1999-06-21). "Thomson's Gale Group Acquires MacMillan Library Reference USA". Retrieved 2018-05-13. ^ "Thomson Gale Part of Larger Sale" by Norman Oder, Library Journal, June 1, 2007 ^ "Cengage Learning Names Patrick C. Sommers President of Gale". Archived from the original on 2007-12-29. Retrieved 2007-11-02. ^ "Databases: Academic OneFile". Austin TX: University of Texas Libraries. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. ^ "eReviews: Biography: Biography and Genealogy Master Index", Library Journal, April 15, 2012, BGMI is a throwback to another era ^ Cengage Learning. "Database Title Lists". Gale: Title Lists. Retrieved October 10, 2014. ^ "Gale". Retrieved 6 February 2013. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gale Cengage. Gale website Gale-owned sites and services Gale Directory Library – dozens of print directories on a digital platform Books & Authors – indexed database of fiction and nonfiction book titles v t e Cengage Academic and professional Chilton Gale Charles Scribner's Sons HighBeam Research Encyclopedia.com InfoTrac Macmillan Reference USA Questia Schirmer Reference Other WebAssign Authority control NKC: ko2002158649 Trove: 864027 VIAF: 150761751 WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 150761751 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gale_(publisher)&oldid=998426596" Categories: 1954 establishments in Michigan American companies established in 1954 Book publishing companies based in Michigan Cengage Companies based in Oakland County, Michigan Bibliographic database providers Commercial digital libraries Online publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1954 1985 mergers and acquisitions American digital libraries Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles needing additional references from November 2011 All articles needing additional references Commons category link is on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Bahasa Melayu Română Edit links This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 09:33 (UTC). 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