HighBeam Research

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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History

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]

Content

The site includes deep archives from Newspapers, such as:

The Boston Globe
The Washington Post
The Economist
The International Herald Tribune
Associated Press

Trade Magazines such as:

Advertising Age
Crain's Chicago Business
Beef Today
AutoWeek
Doors and Hardware

Academic Journals such as:

The Journal of Cancer Research and Therapies
The Journal of autoimmune diseases
The Journal of Education research
The Journal of Social Psychology

In all HighBeam has over 6,500 publications.

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