Library Databases, Datasets and Subscriptions

An extensive collection of leading consumer / trade magazine archives and videos covering the fields of art, design, architecture and their many sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts through to historic preservation and industrial design. Major titles include Artforum, Architectural Review, Country Life, and House Beautiful. Researchers can trace the evolution of trends and styles as well as the history of these industries, from the mid-19th century to the present.

A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.

This database is the only specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art. Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onwards. Also incorporates book records, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Find biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.

This database is the premier source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.

An array of major fashion magazine archives and exclusive video content documenting more than 150 years of fashion history. The collection contains iconic consumer fashion and lifestyle publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and GQ, as well as influential trade titles such as Women’s Wear Daily and Daily News Record. With material documenting fashion trends and industry dynamics from the mid-19th century to the present, researchers can explore and interpret the history, art, and business of fashion across interdisciplinary fields.

The archive of the major film industry magazine Le Film Français, from its inception in 1944 to 2025. Published weekly, this title has been a prominent forum for a wide range of stakeholders and commentators to convey news, analysis, and reporting relating to many aspects of the industry. The archive provides researchers with access to a large body of historical data and insights that illuminate 80+ years of cultural, technological, and economic trends in the film industry in France and beyond.

Financial Times is a London-based international business daily covering business, political, and world affairs news.

Connect learners to the information they're looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 19,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including full text of leading US and international newspapers as well as multimedia resources. Subject coverage is extensive, allowing researchers to explore relevant articles on key areas of study, including biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Empower users with the tools necessary to easily access and interpret complex global business concepts. Designed by and for business researchers, this valuable resource compiles comprehensive business intelligence and places it into logical, useable context with enhanced navigation and interactive tools. Daily updates to more than 500,000 detailed company profiles and in-depth country and industry overviews help researchers stay current with the everchanging business landscape.

As the global leader in reference publishing for more than 50 years, Gale is the trusted source for authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more. These directories are now available online in the Gale Directory Library. This online resource takes these references off the shelf and makes them available at the click of a mouse 24/7. Directories become much more accessible and powerful. With expanded data and state-of-the-art search and export features, Gale Directory Library allows you to select the directories you want and make them available to your users any time, from anywhere

Our largest general-interest periodical resource, Gale General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly. With intuitive searching that mirrors Internet searches, users can easily tap into sources that are guaranteed for quality.Most content in Gale General OneFile is full-text with no embargo and recommended by Bowker's Magazines for Libraries. We've included reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals. With millions of articles available, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

Gale Health and Wellness offers access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Discover the world’s most influential people with Gale In Context: Biography. Narrativebiographies, new stories, and multimedia content bring to life the historical figures, world leaders, sports stars, entertainers, scientists, and authors who have impacted our world throughout history as well as those who are shaping our future.

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.

Today’s environmental issues determine the destiny oftomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies is designed to support students, researchers, and educators in exploring and understanding the critical issues surrounding the environment, many focused in human-environment interactions. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides students and researchers with comprehensive information to critically analyze and understand topics across environmental studies and the humanities from a global perspective.

Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Users can examine issues as reported through the news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.

Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides in-depth contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with experiments, projects, interactive simulations, videos, and images, students see how real-world issues relate to scientific disciplines across the curriculum.

Draw students into the historical events that shaped our country. Gale In Context: U.S. History is an engaging online resource designed to support U.S. history studies by providing a thorough overview of our nation’s complex past—from wars and political movements to the individuals and cultural shifts that initiated them.

Bring history to the fore front of your curriculum with Gale In Context: World History.This engaging online resource reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines, putting topical issues in context.Students will gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.

Support research across all disciplines with Gale Research Complete—a comprehensive academic resource offering access to thousands of scholarly journals, primary sources, eBooks, and trusted reference content. With intuitive search tools, cross-search functionality, and mobile-friendly access, it empowers students and faculty to explore, discover, and advance academic success.

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Twentieth-Century Drama contains the essential collection of published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. This is an extensive collection of play texts by over 300 principal authors from North America and Canada, Britain and Ireland, India, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. The collection's breadth of content and powerful search options allow users to open up connections between classic plays such as George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1923), Thornton Wilder's Our Town (1938), August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (1987), Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965) or Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) and less well-known texts drawn from the full range of modern theatrical traditions. Areas such as postcolonial writing, women's theatre, and community theatre are given full representation, and Naturalist, Expressionist and absurdist works appear alongside popular comedies, melodramas, farces and thrillers.