HighBeam Research is a paid search engine owned by Cengage Learning (through its Gale subsidiary) for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. It is headquartered in Chicago.
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The company started in August 2002 after Patrick Spain, who had just sold Hoover's, which he had cofounded, bought eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com from Tucows. The new company was called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude). ELibrary had a library of 1,200 newspaper, magazine and radio/ TV transcript archives that were generally not freely available.[1]
Original investors included Prism Opportunity Fund of Chicago and 1 to 1 Ventures of Stamford, CT
Spain stated, "There was a glaring gap between free search like Google and high-end offerings like LexisNexis and Factiva."[2]
Later in 2002, it bought Researchville.com.
By 2003, it had increased its archive base to articles from 2,600 publishers.
In 2004, it renamed itself HighBeam Research.
In 2005 it increased its publisher based to 3,500 publishers.
In 2006 Oxford University Press, Knight Ridder and The Washington Post archives were added.
In 2008 it was purchased by Cengage.[3]
Highbeam Research is a partner in the Womensforum network and is a major content provider for the new Womensforum women's issues research website.[4]
The site includes deep archives from Newspapers, such as:
Trade Magazines such as:
Academic Journals such as:
In all HighBeam has over 6,500 publications.
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