Want to make online research easier for students and teachers? Enrich learning and instruction by adding to your school's eBook library. Gale eBooks offers digital nonfiction content delivered through a user-friendly platform. Whether they’re elementary school eBooks (now accessible in Gale In Context: Elementary), junior high books, or school eBooks for other grade levels, you’ll find titles designed to meet your districts’ goals like recovering unfinished learning, supporting social and emotional learning, offering diverse and inclusive views, and more. Plus, these school eBooks offer unlimited, simultaneous access anytime—with no special downloads or apps.

Beyond primary or K-12 eBooks, you can explore content within our latest professional development collections from publishers. Find collections on specific initiatives and popular trends in education, too.

In addition to being good for the well-being of your community, Gale eBooks collections are good for the health of your school budget. Not only can you maximize investment from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, but you own the titles after you purchase them, and can add titles as they become available to meet the evolving needs of your students and educators. Expand your collection of classroom books with Gale eBooks, adding K12 books—including junior high books and high school books—in an accessible platform.

Student Collections

With today’s distance learning, it’s important to build a school eBook library with digital content that engages students. Offer K12 books that are accessible anytime, anywhere. From diverse authors and today’s top publishers, Gale eBooks student collections focus on curriculum-aligned topics, social and emotional learning, equity, and more.

Educator PD Collections

Here’s something to add to your school's eBook library. Make professional learning less of a balancing act, with digital professional development (PD). From virtual learning to literacy instruction, these eBook collections offer educators ongoing professional development that’s personalized, job-embedded, and tied to evaluations.

The Latest in eBooks

Tap into Pandemic Relief Funds

Maximize your district’s ARP ESSER funds with Gale’s K-12 educational resources that recover unfinished learning, support social and emotional learning, and more.
 

American Decades: 2010–2019

Designed for readers in high school and beyond, American Decades: 2010–2019 classroom books examine the events, people, and social trends that impacted contemporary history.

Support Social and Emotional Learning

Help students battle emotional learning and mental health challenges with age-appropriate, evidence-based SEL eBooks in and outside the classroom. These collections contain K12 books that are appropriate for young readers, including junior high books that relate to middle school students.

Personalized & Differentiated Learning

See how Gale eBooks can support differentiation strategies to meet students where they are to motivate and engage them with learning while meeting core competency-based standards.

Foster Empathy with Inclusive eBooks

On Booklist’s Shelf Care podcast, Gale eBooks author Duchess Harris talks about what schools can do to make diversity and inclusion more than just buzzwords. Hear her insights on the titles in these teacher-curated collections of classroom books.

Break Barriers: Get Kids Thinking Critically About Bias

Of the many challenges schools have faced this past year, guiding students to overcome biases ranks high. AASL 2020-2021 president and four experts in the field share how librarians and other educators can rely on credible sources to help students think critically and push past biases.

Look Inside

The Gale eBooks homepage allows users to either browse by subject or search the full catalog.

The search results reveal relevant content at the article and chapter levels for ease of finding information.

The HTML article-view provides an easy browsing experience.

Integrated directly into the user’s workflow formatted citations can be exported to a variety of services and platforms.

Platform Tools & Features

Workflow Tools

Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft 365 tools enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes. Learn More

On-demand Translation

Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages. 

Superior Search

Detailed subject indexing allows users to search content based on subject, title, document type, and more.