gale.com
Gale
Who runs Gale, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Library research databases alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- proquest.com
Measured from Gale’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Gale01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Gale
Gale gale.com
Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides historical archive, library solutions, and trusted educational resources for academic, K-12, and public libraries.
Wikidata: American publisher (1954-)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Gale tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Gale
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gale, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 proquest.com Top 10K
set of journals
Very close - 02
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Very close - 03
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 04
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close - 05
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close - 06
World Book | Award-Winning Encyclopedias, Children's Books, and Educational Materials
World Book is a leading publisher of nonfiction and mixed-genre children's book series, reference materials, and digital learning platforms. Education is World Book’s commitment and its editorial team is World Book’s strength. Each team member is dedicated to producing accurate and unbiased information by utilizing contemporary technological tools and following traditional practices of editorial excellence. For more than 100 years, World Book has promoted learning for the entire family through a range of products in which complex topics are concisely explained and vividly illustrated. An expli
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K-12 Learning | Education Curriculum | Savvas Learning Company
Savvas Learning Company creates award-winning education curriculum, assessments, and K-12 learning solutions to improve student outcomes.
Very close - 08
Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database
From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.
Very close - 09
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 10
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 11
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 12
digital newspaper distribution and technology company based in Canada
Very close - 13
Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business
Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
Very close - 14
beck-online.de - Deutschlands führende juristische Datenbank
beck-online für Kanzleien: Juristische Datenbank mit aktuellen Gesetzen, Kommentaren & Urteilen. Effiziente Recherche für Anwälte & juristische Fachkräfte
Close - 15
Wiley-VCH - Home
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim - A passion for publishing
Very close - 16
Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw
Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.
Very close - 17
Homepage | Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is creating the library of tomorrow, while engineering the solutions that help engage people, connect communities, and evolve service today.
Close - 18
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journal
Very close - 19
Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
Very close - 20 Figshare figshare.com
research output digital online sharing platform; operated by Figshare LLP, part of Digital Science
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Gale’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Gale uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Gale adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gale’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wdth,wght@75..100,300..800&display=swap
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms37619094
- Proofpoint MX mxb-0012df01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1954.awsdns-52.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nq_-x5Q0NGsAwo7zn95gUlcKeYvNRFCceNx1fV2q7T0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian · not on gale.com 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Salesforce · not on gale.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gale.com 9/20
- DocuSign · not on gale.com 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on gale.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on gale.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on gale.com 7/20
- Proofpoint 7/20
- jQuery · not on gale.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on gale.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gale.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on gale.com 6/20