Gale Digital Scholar Lab: Information, Tutorials, and Workshops

The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform that allows users to discover and create collections of digitized texts from the Gale Historical Collections, run a variety of textual analysis on them, and visualize the resulting data.

Getting started

• Please visit our guide on logging into the Gale Digital Scholar Lab
• For general information and frequently asked questions (FAQs), please refer to our overview of the platform

Learning resources

Workshops

Text Analysis Tasting Menu: A Sampling of Available Tools

• This workshop covers a number of text and data mining tools, including the Gale Digital Scholar Lab (start at 05:50 for a short demo)
• Download the accompanying slides and a cheat sheet comparing various text analysis platforms

Tutorials

• Digital Humanities Tools: The Digital Scholar Lab will teach you how to build collections of texts, clean texts, and perform text analysis

Recorded webinars and tutorials from Gale

Gale also provides a variety of training materials related to the Digital Scholar Lab specifically, and their primary source collections, generally.

• Recorded webinars and tutorials for the Digital Scholar Lab
• All Gale upcoming and recorded webinars, including Gale Primary Sources spotlights (if you are interested in specific archival collections)

Technique: Data Visualization, Text and Data Mining, Extracting data

Tools: Digital Scholar Lab