HighBeam Research facts for kids

HighBeam Research was an online service that worked like a special search engine and a huge digital library. It was owned by a company called Cengage Learning, through its Gale part.

This service gave people access to many different types of written materials, all in English. These included newspapers, magazines, academic journals (which are like special magazines for experts), news wires (fast news updates), trade magazines (for specific jobs or hobbies), and encyclopedias. HighBeam Research was located in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

HighBeam had access to more than 6,556 different publications. This means you could read the full text of articles from all these sources. However, it didn't show you the complete original issues of newspapers or magazines, just the articles themselves.

What Kind of Information Could You Find?

HighBeam Research had a wide variety of articles from many different places.

News and Arts Magazines

You could find articles from famous news sources and arts magazines, such as:

• Associated Press (a big news agency)
• The Boston Globe
• The Christian Science Monitor
• The Economist (a well-known magazine about world news and business)
• The Independent
• The International Herald Tribune
• The Jerusalem Post
• The Nation
• The Spectator
• Newsweek
• The Washington Post

Legal and Academic Journals

The service also included articles from important legal journals, like:

• Harvard Law Review
• Yale Law Journal
• Duke Law Journal

And from academic journals, which are publications where researchers share their studies:

• The Journal of Cancer Research and Therapies
• The Journal of Autoimmune Diseases
• The Journal of Education Research
• The Journal of Social Psychology

Trade Magazines

HighBeam also offered articles from trade magazines. These are magazines written for people in specific industries or jobs, such as:

• Advertising Age (for people in advertising)
• Crain's Chicago Business (for business news in Chicago)
• Beef Today (for people in the cattle industry)
• AutoWeek (for car enthusiasts)
• Doors and Hardware (for those in the building industry)

Reference Books

You could also find information from reference books published by Oxford University Press. These included useful books like dictionaries, guides on how to use language correctly, and almanacs (books with facts and figures for a specific year).