Gale's Relationship with Australian Schools
Last year we made a number of changes in how Gale supports Australian School Libraries. Having previously used a school distributor, the Gale ANZ Support team have resumed directly managing all school enquiries,
including trial requests, new subscriptions and renewals which means your Gale experience is streamlined to ensure you receive prompt responses and support for all of your Gale resource needs from one central location.
Australian Schools Renewals Process
All Gale renewals are due on the 1st of the month that the subscription was initially started. We will contact all schools regarding their Gale database renewals including pricing between 30-60 days before the renewals are due and follow up again after 2 weeks. We are happy to provide any assistance with usage statistics required during this process and we will only process a Gale renewal when a school has confirmed they wish to renew in writing with a purchase order number.
We are aware that there are other vendors that will automatically process renewals without school approval, however please be assured that Gale will not do this.
Australian Schools Pricing 2024/25
We have reviewed our schools pricing after freezing the prices for the last two years and we have set new schools pricing to commence from 1st April 2024 - 31st March 2025 for any new subscriptions or renewals with a commencement date of 1st April 2024.
Our previous pricing had a complicated multi-tiered discount structure which we have chosen to remove to simplify the pricing for all schools moving forward. To take into account the large number of existing school customers with various discounts for their Gale database subscriptions we have actually reduced the list price for the vast majority of our school databases.
Understanding that school library budgets are not infinite, we have a single price for each database for all schools, no matter their size or number of campuses (with the exception of the Gale eBook Subscription Package). Click on the orange button below to download the 2024/25 Gale School Price List and please let us know if you have any questions.
The Gale ANZ Support Team is ready to help you with your school library database needs for 2024, please contact us if we can do anything to support your school community.
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