4/18/2025
How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Gale Digital Scholar Lab? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply?
I definitely feel as though I could walk someone through the process of learning the basics of Gale Digital Scholar, and, given time to hear very specifically what they were looking for, could also help them find more in-depth analyses that best suited their research. Also, if a person just wanted to see any or all connections between their work, I could definitely walk them through running any of the analyses they wanted to, regardless of whether they were looking for something specific. I actually found the whole process of using Gale to be quite interesting, though at the moment, I can’t think of any project in specific I’d use this for myself. It opens up a lot of options for analysis in scientific papers or humanities based projects–particularly those research heavy, and perhaps looking into similarities of different topics. I think the most frustrating part to me was the UI, but even that wasn’t so bad once I worked through the system a bit more. I find that often times, research platforms and database related websites tend to have clunky UIs on account of how much content they need to hold, but either way, it seems alright once I spend more time in them. I’d really like to use Gale more, potentially for some of my own projects, to see how it can be utilized more in Arts and Theatrical work.