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Two New Primary Source Databases from Gale

We just added two new digital collections of primary sources to our database collections:

  • America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War
  • Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League

These two collections join another one we’ve had for a while, The Savings and Loan Crisis: Loss of Public Trust and the Federal Bailout, 1989-1993, as part of the Archives Unbound platform from Gale. You’ll find link to these collections on the main databases page and on the history databases page. If there are other database pages where these should be listed, please let Mike know.

Two New Primary Source Collections from Gale

All CUNY libraries now have access to two new digital collections of primary sources from Gale:

  • Slavery & Anti-Slavery
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online

They have been added to our A-Z databases page and the history databases page.

Comments on Gale Business Insights

I don’t think I have much more to add to the insightful comments sent out on the library’s mailing list yesterday by one of our colleagues. I too think we should take a pass on this database, as it doesn’t seem to have unique content. It’s worth noting that I do really like the database’s modern look and feel (by the way, Gale really needs to bring Business & Company Resource Center out of its early 2000s era design).

As part of my poking around in the database, I did a company search for Google and found myself looking at the SWOT analysis (which happens to be the same SWOT analysis you’d find in Business & Company Resource Center). The SWOT analysis is produced by a company called GlobalData. I’m not qualified to just the quality of the analysis but I do think I can say that it is troublesome that the report featured some grammar problems and incorrect info. For example, the company snapshot section of the report says that Google’s web address is at www.google.co.in (that address is actually for the Indian subsidiary); this mistake may suggest where the SWOT analysis was created.