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• Gale in Context: Biography: Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. Biography is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography includes over 5,000 protal pages on contemporary and historical figures. Reference content is offered alongside videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. This resource is continuously updated to ensure users have access to the latest information.
• Gale in Context: Elementary: Explore topics within animals, geography, health, influential people, literature, social studies, sports, and technology. 
• Gale in Context: Environmental Studies: Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more. Integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more, Environmental Studies is updated daily with relevant information. The resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including Water Privatization, Ecotourism, Air Pollution, Green Economy, and more.
• Gale in Context: Global Issues: Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. Integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more. Exclusive to Global Issues, more than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more.
• Gale in Context: High School: Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more. Integrates reference content, biographies, primary sources, multimedia, critical essays, news, and academic journals.
• Gale in Context: Middle School: Explore topics within culture, government, people, U.S. and World history, and literature.
• Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints: A rich resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.
• Gale in Context: Science: Integrating millions of full-text articles that include national and global publications, 200+ science experiments, 300+ interactive simulations, other media, and top reference content, Science is updated daily and offers over 600 pages on topics across the curriculum.
• Gale in Context: U.S. History: Reference content, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5, 500 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers provide a comprehensive investigation into U.S. history.
• Gale in Context: World History: Reaches back to the ancient world--and forward to today's headlines--to deliver a chronicle of the people, cultures, events, and societies that have formed the history of the human race. A range of topics such as Aztecs, Industrial Revolution, Silk Road, the Buddah, Space Race, and more provide a wide perspective across the globe. Rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multimedia content are aligned to curriculum and put this vase subject into context for students. World History is cross-searchable with Gale in Context: U.S. History for users with access to both resources.