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Thomson Gale was a part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, and is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It is now part of Cengage Learning and is called Gale Cengage Learning.

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public and academic libraries, schools and businesses. The company is probably best known for its full-text magazine and newspaper database InfoTrac, and for its multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history and social science.

Gale print imprints include the reference brands Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's Sons®, Primary Source Microfilm™, Scholarly Resources Inc., Schirmer Reference™ , St. James Press®, The TAFT Group® and Twayne Publishers™. Five Star Publishing™ is Gale's fiction imprint, with hundreds of books in print in the Western, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy genres. Gale also sells into the K-12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, KidHaven Press™, Lucent Books®, and others.

In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Thorndike Press, a publisher of large print books. In 2000 it acquired the Munich-based K.G. Saur Verlag, but sold it again in 2006 to Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG. Gale also owns large print publishers Walker Large Print™ and Wheeler Publishing™.

On October 25, 2006 Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly divest the Thomson Learning division, because, in the words of Thomson CEO Richard Harrington, "it does not fit with our long-term strategic vision". Thomson has said that it expected this sale to generate approximately US$5 billion. The company was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for US$7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning to Cengage Learning on 24 July 2007.

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The Thomson Corporation

Public (NYSE:  TOC ), TSX:  TOC )
Founded 1989
Headquarters Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Key people David Thomson, Chairman
Products books, publishing
Revenue US $6.641 billion (2006)[1]
Net income US $1.
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City of Farmington Hills
Location in the state of Michigan
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Cengage Learning, formerly Thomson Learning
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religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience.
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History is the study of the past, focused on human activity and leading up to the present day.[1] More precisely, history is the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race [1]
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Charles Scribner's Sons is a publisher that was founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New York's Park Row. The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. Scribner's is well known for publishing Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert A.
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Large-print (also large-type or large-font) describes a type of book or other (paper, online or otherwise) published material in which the typeface (or font), and sometimes the medium, are considerably larger than usual, to accommodate people who have poor vision.
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K. G. Saur Verlag is a German publisher that specializes in reference information for libraries. The publishing house is centered in Munich.

In 2000 Reed Elsevier sold K.G. Saur to the Gale Group, a unit of The Thomson Corporation. In 2006 the publishing house was acquired by Gruyter.
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The Dictionary of Literary Biography (abbreviated DLB) is a monumental 338-volume encyclopedia published by Thomson-Gale. It is available both in print and online. The biographical material covered extends beyond novelists to include screenwriters, poets, and playwrights.
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AccessMyLibrary.com is a web based federated search product produced by Thomson Gale, which prefers to market the product as a "search engine", although it is more similar in technology and results to a portal or metasearch engine.
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