Gale, part of Cengage Group, has expanded the platform with enhanced support for conducting and presenting digital humanities research—from idea to publication. The new “Projects” feature within offers a guided framework to help students compile their research into a final report, and gives early career researchers an opportunity to share their projects with a worldwide audience of users and others as a first step in academic publishing. These new capabilities support and increase the impact of digital humanities in the classroom, expanding pathways to interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and careers.
“We added and refined the new upgrades in consultation with librarians, instructors and graduate students to support all stages of research, including final publication,” said, vice president of global academic product at Gale. “After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to release these updates to help students and early career researchers get their ideas out into the world.”
The new enhancements include:
– A guided framework to help students compile their research into a final report
– The opportunity to share projects with a worldwide audience of users and others
– The ability to submit work to the Gale Research Showcase for peer review and publication
“By submitting work to the Gale Research Showcase, students have a rare opportunity to experience the peer-review process and publish their research for a global audience,” said Cayley. “As it grows, the Showcase will provide inspiration and guidance to researchers looking to expand their horizons and develop their own digital scholarship projects.”
is a cloud-based research environment designed to transform how scholars and students access and analyze Gale primary source —and their local collections—by offering solutions to some of the most common challenges facing researchers in the digital humanities today. By integrating an unmatched depth and breadth of digital primary source material with some of today’s most popular tools for digital humanities analysis and visualization, the provides a new lens to explore history and empowers researchers to deepen their understanding of the world and how it is represented in the written word.
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Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide.
Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it.
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