Gale Products and HTTPS Support
Last Updated: July 31, 2019Gale strives to protect the right to privacy for library users. We have adopted HTTPS to encrypt patron traffic so that it cannot be compromised. The chart below outlines the products that support the HTTPS protocol today. HTTPS access for these products will become mandatory in summer 2019. This will encrypt patron traffic, ensuring that data between a patron’s browser and Gale products cannot be compromised. We are also making a change so that products will begin directing to *.gale.com instead of *.galegroup.com.
You do not need to update any of your existing URLs. All existing URLs you have in place will automatically redirect to the new location. (HTTPS / *.gale.com)
Does your library use EZ-Proxy? If your library hosts proxy server locally, then you will be required to update your Gale configuration stanza to reflect the changes. The updated configuration can be found here. If your library uses a hosted version of EZ-Proxy from OCLC, then you do not need to take any action as OCLC will update the Gale stanza automatically for you.
Does your library use Innovative WAM proxy? Please contact the support team at Innovative (800-878-6600 or [email protected]) for assistance with configuring your Gale resources. Similarly, libraries using other proxy servers should work directly with the proxy providers for advice and support to ensure continued product access.
Does your library use a Firewall White list? Occasionally libraries prefer to configure firewalls so that users are only allowed to access approved websites on the Internet The firewall is then configured to only allow access to designated websites by domain name (ex. *.galegroup.com). Libraries must allow for the new HTTPS protocol and *.gale.com domain name to be allowed through their firewall in order to successfully access product. If your firewall white list is configured to use IP addresses instead of domain names, then you do not need to take any action as Gale is not changing the IP addresses which are being used. A complete list of host names/IP addresses can be found here.
If you are taking advantage of any linking features within Gale product (ex OpenURL, Links to Holdings, or Interlibrary Loan) you will need to ensure that you are pointing to the HTTPS versions of these features. You can access/modify these settings in GaleAdmin under Discovery Services.
The American Library Association provides additional resources to help your library adopt HTTPS.
The table below describes which Gale products support HTTPS and which ones are planned for the future.
Product Name | Is HTTPS Available? |
|---|---|
17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection | Yes |
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers | December 2019 |
19th Century UK Periodicals | December 2019 |
Academic ASAP | Yes |
Academic OneFile | Yes |
Agriculture Collection | Yes |
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society | Yes |
American Historical Periodicals | Yes |
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 | Yes |
American Fiction, 1774-1920 | Yes |
Analytics On Demand | Yes |
Archives of Sexuality & Gender | Yes |
Archives Unbound | No - Date TBD |
Associated Press Collections Online | Yes |
Associations Unlimited | No - Date TBD |
Biography and Genealogy Master Index | Yes |
Biography in Context | Yes |
Book Review Index Plus | Yes |
Books & Authors | August 2019 |
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture | Yes |
British Library Newspapers | December 2019 |
British Literary Manuscripts Online | No - Date TBD |
Business Collection | Yes |
Business Economics and Theory Collection | Yes |
Business Insights Essentials | Yes |
Business Insights Global | Yes |
Canada in Context | Yes |
Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly | Yes |
Career Transitions | Yes |
Chatham House Online Archive | No - Date TBD |
ChiltonLibrary | Yes |
China and the Modern World | Yes |
Communications and Mass Media Collection | Yes |
Computer Database | Yes |
Contemporary Authors Online | Yes |
Contemporary Womens Issues Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture | Yes Yes |
Criminal Justice Collection | Yes |
Culinary Arts Collection | Yes |
Custom Journals | Yes |
Custom Newspapers | Yes |
Daily Mail Historical Archive | December 2019 |
Demographics Now | Yes |
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online | Yes |
Diversity Studies Collection | Yes |
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library | Yes |
Educators Reference Complete | Yes |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online | No - Date TBD |
Environmental Studies and Policy | Yes |
Expanded Academic ASAP | Yes |
Financial Times Historical Archive | Yes |
Fine Arts and Music Collection | Yes |
Gale Directory Library | Yes |
Gale Interactive: Chemistry | Yes |
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy | Yes |
Gale Interactive: Science | Yes |
Gale Literary Sources | Yes |
Gale Primary Sources | Yes |
Gale Ready Reference Shelf | Yes |
Gale Researcher | Yes |
Gale Small Business Builder | Yes |
Gale Virtual Reference Library | Yes |
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection | Yes |
Gender Studies Collection | Yes |
Genealogy Connect | Yes |
General OneFile | Yes |
General Reference Center | Yes |
General Reference Center Gold | Yes |
General Science Collection | Yes |
Global Issues in Context | Yes |
GREENR | Yes |
Health and Wellness Resource Center | Yes |
Health Reference Center Academic | Yes |
Home Improvement Collection | Yes |
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure | Yes |
Indiana History Online | No - Date TBD |
Indigenous Peoples: North America | Yes |
Information Science and Library Issues Collection | Yes |
Informe Academico | Yes |
Infotrac Newsstand | Yes |
Insurance and Liability Collection | Yes |
International Herald Tribune | Yes |
Kansas History, Territorial through Civil War Years, 1854-1865 | No - Date TBD |
Kids InfoBits | Yes |
LegalForms | Yes |
LegalTrac | Yes |
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 | December 2019 |
Literature Criticism Online | Yes |
Literature Resource Center | Yes |
LitFinder | Yes |
Military and Intelligence Database Collection | Yes |
Miss Humblebee's Academy | Yes |
MLA International Bibliography | Yes |
National Geographic Kids | Yes |
National Geographic Virtual Library | Yes |
Nineteenth Century Collections Online | Yes |
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | December 2019 |
Nursing and Allied Health Collection | Yes |
Nursing Resource Center | Yes |
Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Yes |
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection | Yes |
Picture Post Historical Archive | December 2019 |
Popular Culture Collection | Yes |
Popular Magazines | Yes |
Political Extremism & Radicalism | Yes |
Powersearch | Yes |
Professional Collection | Yes |
Psychology Collection | Yes |
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 | Yes |
Religion and Philosophy Collection | Yes |
Religions of America | Yes |
Research in Context | Yes |
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 | December 2019 |
Science in Context | Yes |
Scribner Writer Series | Yes |
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive | No - Date TBD |
Small Business Collection | Yes |
Small Business Resource Center | Yes |
Smithsonian Collections Online | Yes |
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History | Yes |
Something About The Author Online | Yes |
Sources in U.S. History Online: Slavery in America | No - Date TBD |
Sources in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution | No - Date TBD |
Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War | No - Date TBD |
State Papers Online | No - Date TBD |
Student Edition | Yes |
Student Resources in Context | Yes |
Testing and Education Reference Center | Yes |
The Economist Historical Archive | Yes |
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 | December 2019 |
The Independent Digital Archive | December 2019 |
The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991 | Yes |
The Making of Modern Law | No - Date TBD |
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources | No - Date TBD |
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 | No - Date TBD |
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 | No - Date TBD |
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources | No - Date TBD |
The Making of the Modern World | December 2019 |
The Shakespeare Collection | No - Date TBD |
The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006 | Yes |
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 | Yes |
The Times Digital Archive | Yes |
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive | Yes |
Twayne's Author Series | Yes |
U.S. Declassified Documents Online | Yes |
U.S. History in Context | Yes |
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 | No - Date TBD |
US History Collection | Yes |
Vocations and Career Collection | Yes |
War and Terrorism Collection | Yes |
Women's Studies | Yes |
World History Collection | Yes |
World History in Context | Yes |
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean | Yes |