Contains information for approximately 455,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms. Associations Unlimited covers the following:

• U.S. national associations (23,000)
• International associations (20,000)
• U.S. regional, state, and local associations (111,000)
• Associations' Materials for selected national associations (2,600)
• IRS Data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations (300,000)

Associations Unlimited International

International Associations
Contains information for approximately 21,000 international nonprofit membership associations in all fields. Features full contact information, description, SIC codes, meetings and publications information, and more.
Contains information for approximately 21,000 international nonprofit membership associations in all fields. Features full contact information, description, SIC codes, meetings and publications information, and more.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
"NEW FEATURE: A complete list of sources indexed is now available by using the Extended Search."

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 180,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Brands and Their Companies

Brands and Their Companies provides easy access to more than 282,000 consumer brands and about 51,000 manufacturers and distributors. BTC incorporates more than 120 industry-specific sources, allowing the user to locate information about virtually any type of product, from apparel to zithers. provides easy access to more than 282,000 consumer brands and about 51,000 manufacturers and distributors. BTC incorporates more than 120 industry-specific sources, allowing the user to locate information about virtually any type of product, from apparel to zithers.

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Access three of the world's premier literature resources with a single search. When you simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), you'll find in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. This series includes integrated indexes to both the DLB and CLC print series.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Documents the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres. As DLB is augmented several times over the course of a year, it will grow to include essays on more than 6,000 authors. In addition to providing biographical and critical studies written by scholars and academics, DLB presents bibliographic information about each author's writings as well as sources for further reading.

DISCovering Authors Modules

A comprehensive guide to bio-bibliographical information as well as criticism, DISCovering Authors Modules represents scores of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, including entries on such authors as Muhammad, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Amy Tan. The 1260 authors included in this product are some of the most-studied novelists, poets, dramatists, with special emphasis on multicultural and popular and genre fiction.

DISCovering Authors Modules/DISCovering Most-Studied Authors

DISCovering Most-Studied Authors
Specially excerpted from DISCovering Authors Modules, DISCovering Most-Studied Authors provides comprehensive bio-bibliographical and critical information on 380 of the most-studied authors in North American curricula. Representing a wide variety of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, the database includes entries on such authors as Muhammad, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Maya Angelou.
Specially excerpted from DISCovering Authors Modules, DISCovering Most-Studied Authors provides comprehensive bio-bibliographical and critical information on 380 of the most-studied authors in North American curricula. Representing a wide variety of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, the database includes entries on such authors as Muhammad, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Maya Angelou.

DISCovering Biography

DISCovering Biography is your source for information on 2,000 of the most frequently studied individuals from ancient times to the present. Included are renowned personalities from all areas of the world and fields of endeavor. In addition, students will be thrilled to discover a range of fascinating current people, including sports figures like Grant Hill, music groups such as R.E.M., and high-profile movie stars like Meg Ryan. The DISCovering Biography database has been fully indexed to meet the needs of students and general readers, offering searches by name, occupation, birth and death dates and places, nationality, ethnicity, gender, awards, and subject terms, as well as a range of advanced search criteria. DISCovering Biography also offers opportunities to jump directly to related entries through the use of hypertext links within the entries. is your source for information on 2,000 of the most frequently studied individuals from ancient times to the present. Included are renowned personalities from all areas of the world and fields of endeavor. In addition, students will be thrilled to discover a range of fascinating current people, including sports figures like Grant Hill, music groups such as R.E.M., and high-profile movie stars like Meg Ryan. The DISCovering Biography database has been fully indexed to meet the needs of students and general readers, offering searches by name, occupation, birth and death dates and places, nationality, ethnicity, gender, awards, and subject terms, as well as a range of advanced search criteria. DISCovering Biography also offers opportunities to jump directly to related entries through the use of hypertext links within the entries.

DISCovering Multicultural America

DISCovering Multicultural America is a thoroughly integrated multimedia reference source that offers information on the culture, history, and current status of America's largest and most often studied ethnic groups: is a thoroughly integrated multimedia reference source that offers information on the culture, history, and current status of America's largest and most often studied ethnic groups:

• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Hispanic Americans
• Native North Americans

DISCovering Multicultural America provides information on people, significant documents, timeline events, landmarks, organizations, essays, periodical articles, and glossary terms. The information can be accessed through a number of search paths, as well as retrieved through more than 22,000 intuitive hypertext links.

DISCovering Science

DISCovering Science provides comprehensive coverage of the following scientific disciplines: provides comprehensive coverage of the following scientific disciplines:

• Physical and applied sciences
• Medicine
• Technology
• Information sciences
• Mathematics

DISCovering U.S. History

DISCovering U.S. History goes beyond dates and places to provide users with a contextual understanding of the commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped America. In DISCovering U.S. History users will find comprehensive and engaging essays devoted to such diverse topics as: goes beyond dates and places to provide users with a contextual understanding of the commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped America. In DISCovering U.S. History users will find comprehensive and engaging essays devoted to such diverse topics as:

• Government and Politics
• Art, Dance, Film, and Music
• Business and the Economy
• Science and Technology
• Social History

DISCovering World History

DISCovering World History goes beyond dates and places to provide users with a contextual understanding of the commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped the world in which we live. In DISCovering World History users will find comprehensive and engaging essays devoted to such diverse topics as: goes beyond dates and places to provide users with a contextual understanding of the commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped the world in which we live. In DISCovering World History users will find comprehensive and engaging essays devoted to such diverse topics as:

• Government and Politics
• Art, Dance, Film, and Music
• Business and the Economy
• Science and Technology
• Social History

EXPLORING Poetry

EXPLORING Poetry is your source for information on over 200 of the most frequently studied poems in high school literature classes, on their images, themes, and construction. EXPLORING Poetry will assist you in answering such questions as: is your source for information on over 200 of the most frequently studied poems in high school literature classes, on their images, themes, and construction. EXPLORING Poetry will assist you in answering such questions as:

• What are the key themes in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
• What significant world events took place at the time Coleridge lived and wrote?
• What other poets were writing at the same time as Coleridge, and what influence may they have had on him?
• What is the poetic form of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"? How is it structured?
• What have critics written about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

EXPLORING Shakespeare

EXPLORING Shakespeare is your source for information on the most frequently studied plays of William Shakespeare. This product contains the complete text of the plays, essays on the characters and themes in the plays, a biography of the playwright, an essay of the Globe Theatre, an essay on the Elizabethan Theatre, essays on contemporary society, and more. This release of EXPLORING Shakespeare covers these four plays: is your source for information on the most frequently studied plays of William Shakespeare. This product contains the complete text of the plays, essays on the characters and themes in the plays, a biography of the playwright, an essay of the Globe Theatre, an essay on the Elizabethan Theatre, essays on contemporary society, and more. This release of EXPLORING Shakespeare covers these four plays:

• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet

Gale Business Resources (Integrated)

The Integrated GBR Database contains detailed information on 448,000 U.S. and international companies, thorough histories and chronologies of major companies, and in-depth coverage of over 1,000 major U.S. and global industries including full-text essays, rankings, market shares, trade and professional associations, and statistical analyses.

Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media

Contains descriptive and contact information for more than 63,000 newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, directories, television and radio stations, and cable television companies in the United States and Canada. (Directories coverage extends worldwide.)

The Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media is comprised of the following three Gale publications:

• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Directories in Print
• Newsletters in Print

Gale Directory of Databases

Contains detailed descriptions of nearly 11,000 publicly available databases accessible through an online vendor or batch processor or for purchase on CD-ROM, diskette, or magnetic tape, or as a handheld product. Separate listings for some 3,600 database producers and 2,000 vendors and distributors provide full contact information and lists of databases offered. The most complete product guide to the electronic database industry worldwide.

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf integrates 14 of Gale's most popular reference directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations, and more. Fully searchable across all files, this database contains information drawn from the following Gale databases:

• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Associations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Associations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State, and Local Associations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
• Publishers Directory
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Directories in Print
• Newsletters in Print
• Gale Directory of Databases
• Gale Guide to Internet Databases
• Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
• Research Centers Directory
• Government Research Centers Directory
• International Research Centers Directory
• Encyclopedia of American Religion

Literature Resource Center: LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors

Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students, the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most used literary databases in a single Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Student Resource Center - Gold

A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 800 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

The Twayne Authors Series: Twayne World, English, and US Authors

The Twayne Authors Series is the premier literary reference resource series comprising:

Twayne's U.S. Authors
Twayne's English Authors
Twayne's World Authors

Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum.

The Twayne Authors Series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, or the development of literary genres. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of authors' works, these studies take account of major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism, and provide new critical insights and original points of view. Each treatment of an author averages from 175 to 200 pages in length.

What Do I Read Next?

Featuring more than 80,000 recommended titles, What Do I Read Next? Online cumulates entries from the popular print products What Do I Read Next?, What Do Young Adults Read Next?, What Do Children Read Next?, What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, and What Historical Novel Do I Read Next? plus thousands of award winners, best sellers, and librarian favorites. Additionally, What Do I Read Next? Online reaches beyond the scope of the print series to include contemporary mainstream fiction, classic fiction and popular nonfiction.

Search by title, author, subject, full text, time period, geographic location, character and reading level to discover your next reading adventure. Follow the series links to additional titles, use the Help Me Find a Book search to get recommendations based on some of your favorite titles or topics, or let our experts recommend books that capture the type of book you're looking for.

Enhanced with author biographies, What Do I Read Next? Online is an easy and fun-to-use one-stop source for expert recommendations on classic, mainstream or genre fiction and nonfiction titles covering a wide range of subjects for all age levels.