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More than 125,000,000 articles
from the world’s leading periodicals
More than 2,600 of the world’s leading
reference books from over 60 publishers
Award Winning Platform
Most Improved Product Award -- 2007
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InfoTrac Solutions
Database Primary Focus
With over 3,800 full-text titles, from national news magazines and
encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center GoldTM
has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need.
General Reference Center Gold™ features hyperlinks between and even
within sources, providing point-and-click navigation to related topics and
articles.
1,400 of the most searched magazines across all of InfoTrac. All the titles
were selected based on a library patron’s searches. This database also
includes audio content with the transcripts from NPR.
This innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database allows users to
search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other
assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and
searchable archives.
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great
resource for any educator. Educator's Reference Complete is the perfect
complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database, because it
provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC.
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InfoTrac Solutions
Database Primary Focus
InfoTrac Student Edition offers screened, age-appropriate and reliable
content from the magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians
prefer, curriculum demands and students enjoy.
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition
features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior
Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will
find the answers they need.
It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a
subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-
related magazine and reference content for Kindergarten through grade 5.
Additional Niche Collections
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Why Use InfoTrac
Why InfoTrac makes a difference
InfoTrac makes articles easy to find by a public library patron or student.
InfoTrac provides unique content that cannot be found elsewhere.
InfoTrac will not frustrate your patrons or students as we provide more full text with the lowest embargo rate than any other aggregator.
InfoTrac includes articles, reference content, audio , and video in one easy to use resource.
Read speaker provides audio translations of every article.
InfoTrac will keep you patrons and students coming back to the subscription databases you invest in.
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• GRC Gold now contains more then 5,000 titles
• Over 3,800 full text titles (over three times the number available in EBSCO MasterFile Elite)
• Podcasts, images, video and audio content from many major news agencies
• More than 55 million articles at a user’s fingertips
General Reference Center Gold
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Collection of the top 1,400 full text magazines searched on across all InfoTrac products
Product designed based on usage by library patrons
Over 1,371 titles in full text
Includes over 600 titles covered in Magazines for Libraries in active, full-text
“Popular Magazines”
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers allows you to create your own customized collection. Build your collection from more than 1,250 National, International, Regional, State, and local papers.
Custom Newspaper Collection
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• Contains more then 1,100 periodicals and academic journals
• Over 400 full text titles found in ERIC with no embargo
• More then 200 reports from the US Department of Education
Educators Reference Complete
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Student Databases
InfoTrac StudentMore than 1,000 full-text titles for high school students (twice the number available in EBSCO MAS Ultra) along with great reference titles like Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery, Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, the Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates, Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary and many more.
InfoTrac JuniorMore than 330 full-text titles for middle school students along with several reference titles such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, Merriam Webster's Biographical Dictionary and The World Almanac and Book of Facts.
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Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a
developmentally appropriate and visual
graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-
text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related
magazine and reference content.
Kids InfoBits
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Home Improvement Collection
From Small Projects to New Construction
• More than 250 titles
• How-to-Guides in Color
• Also covers Interior Design
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• A collection of more than 100 journals
• 20 subject specific reference sources from Delmar, Cengage Learning,
• Step by step guides around floral design, landscaping, and floral arrangements
• More than 2.5 million articles and growing - updated daily!
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
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Vocations and Careers Collection
• A collection of nearly 400 subject specific journals
• A great resource for finding the right career, searching for a job or enrolling in an appropriate institution of learning or training
• The perfect tool for advancing in your career through continuing education
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InfoTrac: Search Features
Did You Mean?
Also Try
Easy access to limiters, full-text, with images, peer reviewed
New document display, with easier access to bookmarks and document tools (Email, Print, Cite, Share, View PDF)
Translate any article into 11 different languages now including Arabic, Russian, and Polish
Added web 2.0 sharing functionality
Tab configuration
Named User login and customization
Search alerts and RSS feed export capability
Customizable RSS feeds on the home page
New Image Gallery
New Video Gallery
“Browsable” publication search
Search within Results
Enhanced “Browsable” Subject Guide with topic groupings, as well as “limit by subject” and “limit by document type”
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PowerSearch
Custom Newspapers Popular Magazines
PowerSearch gives libraries one simple search for all Gale products in one interface. PowerSearch provides your patrons with access to all the Gale content in your library's collection through one, single search query. The result is that you maximize usage of your Gale databases while patrons enjoy the time saved through a streamlined common user interface.
General Reference
Center Gold
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Widgets - free tools to increase usage
Gale’s Widgets are simple but powerful tools that generate short HTML code to be placed directly into any page on your web site.
Locations that have added a search box or an icon to their site, see an average increase of 100% in usage!
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PowerSearch – New Homepage: customizable by the user
Featured publications,
including recently added and titles
chosen by librarians.
Better, more visible navigation
links.
More visually appealing home
page, giving users more of a “web-like” experience.
Named User Support,
allowing users to create profiles
and save content.
Customizable RSS feeds enable the
library and users to highlight information
important to their communities and
interests.
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Enhanced Search Results Page
Web 2.0 sharing functionality, including RSS.
Context-sensitive multimedia accompany search results, including images, video and
podcasts.
Search within results; limit results by subject, publication, document type; date.
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Easy to refine and limit search results Tabs, with number of results per tab.
Easy access to limiters, including “Search Within Results”, full-text and with images
“Instant Limiters” allowing users to limit results by Subject, document type,
document title to quickly find information.
Libraries can choose their default tab. “Reference” has been changed
to “Books,” as it is a term more users are familiar with.
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Enhanced Document Display
Web 2.0 sharing tools, including Del.icio.us,
MySpace, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Newsvine and
more to connect users with their community.
Every article is downloadable in MP3 file format.
Listen to articles read aloud with ReadSpeaker technology - helps bridge reading gaps and caters
to auditory learners.
Technology to support a diverse
range of languages with on-demand
translation of documents -
Russian, Arabic and Polish were just
added to the existing 8 languages.
Article level related subjects links.
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Search Alerts/RSS Users can generate a Search Alert when viewing results or a Journal Alert when viewing a
publication. This service pushes new content to the user via email as it is loaded into the database's).
Users can also take advantage of Gale’s RSS service, which automatically sends content into their reader
or their Homepage
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Improved Citations
Improved citations now include accurate fields and
formatting, per latest APA and MLA standards.
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Did You Mean?
“Did You Mean?” offers suggestions when a user misspells a term or phrase. Below, a search on
“alcoholizm” brings forth the following suggestions.
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Also Try“Also Try” feature helps users find better information. Example below suggests “Capital Punishment” when user searches on “death penalty.”
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Browsing Subjects
Simplified browsing through millions of
documents by subject, further narrowing
capabilities by topic, location and date.
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Browsing Publications
Browse through Gale’s more than 20,000
publications, refining by subject and type.
New hover technology allows user to see more details without clicking
through.
Create Journal Alerts for any publication - choose email or RSS feed delivery and customize your home page with publications that
meet your research needs.
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Publication Details
Enhanced publication pages, with cover images, more
details and easier browsing navigation.
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More Advanced Searching Options
More limiting capabilities, including a controlled-
vocabulary browse that allows users to refine their searches with multiple subject terms.
Limit by publication, publication subject category, language,
reading level and many more options.
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User Created Profiles
Upon executing a search, you have the ability to save your
search results to your custom profile.
Give your search results a unique name and click on “save” to save the results
to your custom profile.Saved Searches appear in your
custom profile to facilitate ongoing
research and interests.
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Additional Information
To access the instructions on placing the “PowerSearch Box” on your web page, please go to: http://access.gale.com/search
To receive a weekly email notice of the new titles added to the InfoTrac databases, please visit:
www.gale.cengage.com
Click on: Technical Resources
Click on: InfoTrac Discussion List
Or visit:
http://gale.cengage.com/enewsletters/join_infotrac.htm