HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Cengage Learning (through its Gale subsidiary) for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias in English. It is headquartered in Suite 900 in the One North State building in the Chicago Loop, Chicago, United States.[1]
[edit] History
The company was established in August 2002 after Patrick Spain, who had just sold Hoover's, which he had co-founded, 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.[2]
Original investors included Prism Opportunity Fund of Chicago and 1 to 1 Ventures of Stamford, Connecticut.
Spain stated, "There was a glaring gap between free search like Google and high-end offerings like LexisNexis and Factiva."[3]
Later in 2002, it bought Researchville.com. By 2003, it had increased its archive base to articles from 2,600 publishers. In 2004, it was renamed HighBeam Research. In 2005, it increased its publisher base 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.[4]
Highbeam Research is a partner in the Womensforum network and a major content provider for the new Womensforum women's issues research website.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Contact Us." HighBeam Research. Retrieved on September 24, 2012. "HighBeam Research c/o Cengage Learning 1 North State Street Suite 900 Chicago, IL 60602 USA"
- ^ "About Us". Highbeam.com. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
- ^ "Q&A: Patrick Spain, Founder HighBeam – internetnews – February 24, 2004". InterNetNews. 2004-02-20. Retrieved October 06, 2012.
- ^ Posted by Gwen at December 16, 2008 02:17 AM (December 16, 2008). "Gale Acquired HighBeam Research – December 16, 2008". Websearchguide.ca. Retrieved October 06, 2012.
- ^ Highbeam.com. "Highbeam Research is a WomensForum Network Partner". Womensforum.com. Retrieved October 06, 2012.
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