Periodical Solutions for Libraries

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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

Questions?Questions?