Artemis: Literary Sources

Gale’s Artemis: Literary Sources is a set of tools that enables searching across the federated listings of many Gale literary subscriptions. The interface is as attractive as its capabilities are impressive. This refreshing and revolutionary tool is a useful tie-in to Gale’s products, offering search and data visualization options that are new and unparalleled. The data mining researcher in statistical or textual analysis will find its navigability and ease of uncovering hidden relationships among large literature data sets to be invaluable to scholarship, particularly in the Digital Humanities. The product’s few weaknesses may lie inside its strengths. Because it is inherently tied to access to Gale’s products, it is only available to subscribers of multiple Gale offerings, and may be of limited use or unclear benefit to smaller institutions that do not already purchase many subscriptions from Gale. As the product is still morphing as Gale moves to merging literary and primary source collections, its ultimate value to some institutions may be more unclear than to others who have enough researchers to make use of the product to its full potential.