Gale grows digital collections

Gale (part of Cengage Learning) has added to its digital collections making ten new resources available to researchers.  The new collections include:

• The Chatham House Online Archive – including a searchable archive of Chatham House publications, audio recordings, briefing reports, and analysis on global trends and key events and issues (see also here)
• Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature & the Merchandizing of Industry –digitised catalogues, pamphlets, and ephemera
• Smithsonian Collections Online: World’s Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow – follows technological innovation and cultural trends through photos, books, exhibit plans and catalogues
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children’s Literature and Childhood – provides children’s literature as well as legal and sociological texts from Europe, Asia, and North America
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992- a full digitised run of the British humour magazine
• The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012 – digitised run of British daily newspaper

For more information and a full list of the new digital collections, see the Gale/Cengage Learning website.