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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.
Opposing Viewpoints is a series of books on current issues which seeks to explore the varying opinions in a balanced pros/cons debate. The series attempts to encourage critical thinking and issue awareness by providing opposing views on contentious issues.
Consensus can change, and context matters tremendously when determining how to use this list. Only sources that have been repeatedly raised for discussion are listed here, it is not a general or comprehensive list of all generally reliable or unreliable sources in the world, it is a summarization of discussions about the listed sources.
International Thomson acquired reference publisher Gale Research in 1985. [11] International Thomson acquired South-Western Publishing from SFN in 1986. [12] In 1992, Thomson acquired Course Technology. [13] In 1995, Thomson acquired educational reference publisher Peterson's. [14] In 1997, Van Nostrand Reinhold was sold to John Wiley & Sons. [15]
Full list available here. Selected content from Gale Virtual Reference Library including American Decades and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Biography In Context , a database of biographical entries containing biographies on more than 400,000 people from over 170 sources.
Rating Description A: Reliable No doubt about the source's authenticity, trustworthiness, or competency.History of complete reliability. B: Usually reliable Minor doubts. History of mostly valid informa
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of books published in Great Britain during the 18th century. [1] [2]Gale, an education publishing company in the United States, assembled the collection by digitally scanning microfilm reproductions of 136,291 titles.
Source credibility is "a term commonly used to imply a communicator's positive characteristics that affect the receiver's acceptance of a message." [1] Academic studies of this topic began in the 20th century and were given a special emphasis during World War II, when the US government sought to use propaganda to influence public opinion in support of the war effort.