HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research logo used in February 2004
Owner	Gale(Cengage)
URL	highbeam
Launched	August 2002(2002-08)
Current status	Defunct
Content license	Copyright All rights reserved

HighBeam Researchwas a paidsearch engineand full text online archive owned byGale,a subsidiary ofCengage,for thousands ofnewspapers,magazines,academic journals,newswires,trade magazines,andencyclopediasin English.It was headquartered inChicago, Illinois.In late 2018, the archive was shut down.

History

The company was established in August 2002 afterPatrick Spain,who had just soldHoover's,which he had co-founded, boughteLibraryandEncyclopediafromTucows.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.Original investors included Prism Opportunity Fund of Chicago and 1 to 1 Ventures ofStamford,Connecticut.Spain stated, "There was a glaring gap between free search likeGoogleand high-end offerings likeLexisNexisandFactiva."

Later in 2002, it bought Researchville. 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 RidderandThe Washington Postarchives were added. In 2008, it was purchased byGale,a subsidiary ofCengage.Highbeam featured many articles by the UK basedTrinity MirrorGroup.

Highbeam Research shut down in late 2018 after 16 years. When they did so, all of their content was added toQuestia.

External links

• Alacritudeat theWayback Machine(archived July 24, 2002)
• HighBeam Businessat theWayback Machine(archived 2010-01-24)