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| Parent company | Cengage |
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| Founded | 1954; 71 years ago (1954) (as Gale Group) |
| Founder | Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr.[1] |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | Farmington Hills, Michigan |
| Publication types | Primary sources,databases,e-books,e-learning, Thorndike Large Print |
| Official website | www |
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based inFarmington Hills, Michigan, United States,[2] west ofDetroit. It has been a division ofCengage since 2007.
The company, formerly known asGale Research and theGale Group, is active in research and educational publishing forpublic,academic, andschool libraries, and for 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 ofreligion,history, andsocial science.
Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 byFrederick Gale Ruffner Jr.,[3] the company was acquired by theInternational Thomson Organization (later theThomson Corporation) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage.
In 1998, Gale Research merged with Information Access Company and Primary Source Media, two companies also owned by Thomson, to form the Gale Group. Thomson has acquired Information Access Company (publisher ofInfoTrac) in 1995 and Primary Source Media (formerly named Research Publications) in 1979.[4]
In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Macmillan Library Reference (includingScribner's Reference, Thorndike Press, Schirmer, Twayne Publishers, andG. K. Hall) from Pearson (which had acquired it fromSimon & Schuster in 1998;Macmillan USA was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994).[5] In 2000 it acquired theMunich-basedK. G. Saur Verlag,[6] but then sold it toWalter de Gruyter in 2006.[7]
On October 25, 2006, Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to whollydivest 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 ofApax Partners andOMERS Capital Partners for $7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning toCengage Learning on July 24, 2007.[8]
Patrick C. Sommers was president of Gale from October 22, 2007,[9] until he retired in 2010.
Gale produces hundreds of products, such as Gale Academic OneFile,[10]Biography and Genealogy Master Index,[11] General OneFile, General Reference Center, Sabin Americana (based on Sabin'sBibliotheca Americana), and World History Collection.[12]
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 theK–12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L.[13] Gale also owns large print publishers Christian Large Print and Wheeler Publishing.
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