Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
In addition to all of the traditional services available through InfoTrac, Cengage Gale is proud to announce a number of new services offered through collaboration with Thomson Scientific/ISI. Mutual subscribers of Academic OneFile and Thomson Scientific's Web of Science® and Journal Citation Reports® and will be provided seamless access to cited references, digital object identifier (DOI) links, and additional article-level metadata, as well as to current and historical information on a selected journal's impact factor. Further, Thomson Scientific customers will be able to pull the full-text of an article right from their InfoTrac subscription. This close collaboration will allow for fully integrated and seamless access to the best in academic, full-text content and the indexing around it. Academic OneFile also includes a linking arrangement with JSTOR for archival access to a number of periodicals, as well as full OpenURL compliance for e-journal and subscription access.

Biography in Context (formerly Biography Resource Center)
Virtually every course of study - from history to science to literature - is ultimately tied to the study of people. Their challenges, motivations, successes and failures can educate and inspire learners of all descriptions.

Now you can offer users the best source of content. Biography in Context, a next-generation online portal, is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000 people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources.

Biography in Context (based on the acclaimed Biography Resource Center) delivers Gale's authoritative reference content integrated with the most in-demand resources - video, audio, podcasts, interactives and more - through a Web-like experience that meets the needs of today's Internet-savvy users.

The growing collection of new Gale In Context knowledge portals deliver authoritative, media-rich content complemented by features that foster information literacy and encourage critical thinking:

• Search Assist (with "Did You Mean?" prompt) helps users find accurate results
• Factbox overviews of biographical highlights encourage further investigation
• Related Topics and vetted websites aid discovery of similar content
• Content organized by type - reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more - supports general users and those who wish to conduct extensive research
• Interactive maps place information in geographical context
• Translation-on-demand, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech and font size adjustment technology support diverse communities and differentiated learning
• MLA7 and APA citation tools facilitate correct assignment presentation
• Tools to download, print and share content online encourage collaboration

Book Review Index Online Plus
The Book Review Index family of online products includes two distinct and separately saleable databases, including Book Review Index Online and Book Review Index Online Plus. They are both OpenURL compliant, allowing subscribers to link to full-text reviews from other sources.
Book Review Index Online (index only) is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. This online product will answer librarians' demand for a single access point to index data contained in numerous print volumes of Book Review Index.
Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Books and Authors
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
With an up-to-date and configurable interface, and a unique Open Web component, Books & Authors offers libraries of all kinds a powerful tool that promotes the discovery of literature, and where to find it in your library. Backed by a team of hand-picked genre experts, Books and Authors connects readers with books and provides a number of key functions in your library, including:

• Increase circulation of fiction and non-fiction
• Build and promote book clubs and programs in your library
• Help patrons make informed reading choices
• Drives potential and existing patrons to your library database via the Open Web.

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Business & Company Resource Center has content ranging from over 4,000 business periodicals (including full-text and refereed titles) to consumer marketing data, corporate histories and chronologies, investment reports, press releases, stock quotes, company listings, product and brand information, suit and claim information, industry rankings, financial ratios, all organized in tabular navigation and all cross-indexed. 

The database includes:

• 500,000 Company profiles (well over 1/3 of which are non-U.S. companies), including corporate parent/sibling relationships
• Industry rankings
• Products and brands
• Stock prices
• Investment reports
• Industry statistics
• Corporate chronologies and histories
• Consumer marketing data
• Emerging technology reports
• Industry newsletter news and analysis
• Business journal news and analysis
• Press releases
• Global coverage
• And more

Whether your users are graduate students, business professionals or casual investors, this comprehensive database provides highly respected information sources, featuring Thomson Financial Securities Data content, with functions that allow for precise searching. This unique database offers access to:

• Investext® (ASCII) reports
• Comprehensive financial overviews
• Twenty minute delayed stock quotes
• Company performance ratings
• Current investment ratings
• First Call Consensus Estimates
• CDA/Investnet Insider Buying & Selling Activity
• CDA/Spectrum Major Shareholders
• Pricing Momentum Short Interest Share and Ratios Key Measures
• Balance sheets and income statements
• Financial ratios
• Coverage of major business events and trends back to 1980

Business & Company Resource Center is customizable with you choice of specialty modules - including the PROMT and Investext Plus modules -- to bring you the information you need most.

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Educator’s Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. 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. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Expanded Academic ASAP
A premier database for research in all the academic disciplines! Unparalleled in its depth and scope, this premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration -- from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, Expanded Academic ASAP™ delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher -- all in one seamless search. Subscribe to this comprehensive resource through InfoTrac®Web and your library gains 24-hour, remote access to the right academic sources through your preferred interface with the right technical configuration for your needs.
The scope and depth of coverage in Expanded Academic ASAP™ will satisfy the broad spectrum of students, faculty and graduate researchers who depend on your library for answers every day. Balanced coverage is available through 5,555 indexed and 2,182 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. There are 2,060 refereed journals, and 20 years of backfile coverage are included with your subscription.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.  Because each Library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office.).

The reference titles offered by The Library of Virginia for public libraries and K12 schools include:

• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

•  Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural American

• Encyclopedia of American Industries (to release in December 2004)

The Gale Virtual Reference Library opens reference collections in a new way to libraries, patrons and students with the following:

• 24/7 remote access

• No Checkout requirements or turnaways, multi-volume sets are always available

• Circulation of reference content

• Expanding selection of titles, add titles to your collection at your own pace

• Cross searching

• No Need for special hardware or an online reader

• Shelf space-savings

• Back-up for print resources

Flexible and easy to browse, The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers:

• About this book (a description and cover photo)

•  Illustration list

• eBook Indexes

• eBook table of content

•  In-line graphics and tables

•  Hyperlinks to related content within an eBook

Choose your content from a continuously growing content list. Develop your e-reference collection at our own pace based on your users’ needs and usage patterns.  Cengage Gale will manage your collection, showing patrons only the eBooks you have purchased. 

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A controlled vocabulary in General BusinessFile ASAP™ enables precise retrieval of periodicals, newspapers, newswires, company profiles and investment reports in a single search.

General BusinessFile ASAP™ is a fully international database designed to provide users with unparalleled access to:

• 200,000 company profiles
• More than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports
• Late-breaking news and event coverage on companies, industries, products and executives
• The latest in business theory, economics and favored practices

Health & Wellness Resource Center Alternative Health Module
Available 24 hours a day via the Internet, Health & Wellness Resource Center's Alternate Health Module provides a one stop, full-service resource for alternative and complimentary therapies. It provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines and pamphlets for consumers and health care professionals.

This module displays additional information on alternative topics such as, herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, chiropractic and more. This module is a nice compliment to Health & Wellness Resource Center.

Some of the references included in this module are:

• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
• PDR for Herbal Medicines
• PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies
• Expanded Commission E Monographs
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information Sourcebook
• Alternative & Complementary Therapies
• Alternative Health Practitioner
• Alternative Medicine Review
• Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
• British Homeopathic Journal
• Complementary Therapies in Medicine
• Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
• Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth
• Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies
• Journal of Chinese Medicine
• Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
• Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy
• Lawrence Review of Natural Products
• Massage Therapy Journal
• Midwifery Today
• Planta Medica
• Spectrum
• Topics in Clinical Chiropractic
• Vegetarian Voice

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Health Reference Center Academic
How can you easily provide current, reliable health information for your patrons -- including your nursing and allied health students? Give them access to Health Reference Center -- Academic on InfoTrac® Web. This multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center™ plus 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals. All in a single, easy-to-use database, Health Reference Center -- Academic integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. By subscribing through InfoTrac Web, your library gains 24-hour access to all these full text and image sources, through your preferred interface, with the right technical configuration for your needs.

U.S. History in Context (formerly History Resource Center: U.S.)  

History in Context - your choice of two next-generation knowledge portals - attracts and supports today's learners. Based on Gale's successful History Resource Center products, these new portals offer outstanding primary and secondary history sources combined with the media-rich selections that today's users demand.

A Web-like interface and intuitive functionality lead to a comprehensive selection of multimedia results that put the tools of the historian into users' hands with an ease and engagement never before experienced.

World History in Context reaches back nearly 5,000 years to chronicle the rise and fall of cultures and societies across all continents and eras. Rare primary sources combine with reliable references to put content into context for every learner.

The growing collection of new Gale In Context knowledge portals deliver authoritative, media-rich content complemented by features that foster information literacy and encourage critical thinking:

• Search Assist (with "Did You Mean?" prompt) helps users find accurate results
• Factbox overviews of biographical highlights encourage further investigation
• Related Topics and vetted websites aid discovery of similar content
• Content organized by type - reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more - supports general users and those who wish to conduct extensive research
• Interactive maps place information in geographical context
• Translation-on-demand, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech and font size adjustment technology support diverse communities and differentiated learning
• MLA7 and APA citation tools facilitate correct assignment presentation
• Tools to download, print and share content online encourages collaboration

For researchers at all levels, periodical and news information is now available in one user-friendly electronic resource. InfoTrac OneFile includes 5,468 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of more than 9,660 titles in all with 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present; Gale Group support and training; and much more. InfoTrac OneFile puts approximately 25 million database records at your users' fingertips with a single search query. It includes:

• Newswires -- 89 wire services that are fed by more than 160 newspapers covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
• Newspapers -- Full indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor
• Periodicals -- General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers

InfoTrac OneFile features a fully updated, intuitive interface -- providing multiple pathways to key information. Its browser style format enables users to browse the latest news, review a set of subject areas, review and select a particular resource, or search across the entire database. With its time-tested InfoTrac search functionality, this essential resource is versatile and easy to use.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
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 to all their general reference questions -- without lining up at your desk or waiting for titles out on loan. InfoTrac Junior Edition provides indexing and abstracts of 215 journals with 201 full text titles.  Additionally, the database includes full text newspaper articles from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, 300+ full color maps, and the following full text reference books:

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
• The Reader’s Companion to American History
• The Columbia Encyclopedia

Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits includes curriculum support references from Blackbirch Press, nearly 120 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Kids InfoBits is jam-packed with eye popping graphs, charts, maps and more than 3,000 searchable images.

Kids InfoBits 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 features:

• A drilldown subject topic tree for users who need helping identifying a particular topic
• Full-text proprietary reference content from Blackbirch Press that supports the K-5 curriculum
• Nearly 120 full-text, age appropriate magazines
• Over 3,000 searchable, indexed images
• A 5-year backfile that offers relevant and manageable results lists

Reference content in Kids InfoBits includes:

• Kidbits, 2nd Ed. (Blackbirch Press)
• The Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science and Invention
• The Blackbirch Kid's Almanac of Geography
• The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World
• The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the States
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition
• Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary

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LegalTrac
LegalTrac is a database that is designed to meet the needs of students, law school faculty, and legal researchers. LegalTrac provides indexing for 1,427 of the most highly regarded legal publications, 123 of which are full text. These include major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Each title is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Literature Resource Center with Scribner Writers Series, Twayne US, Twayne English and Twayne World Authors
Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Included in Literature Resource Center is:

• Biographical entries on more than 130,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
• More than 70,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review
• More than 7,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction
• More than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines
• Nearly 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays
• More than 4,500 interviews
• Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits
• The ability to identify groups of authors who share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender
• Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

New and updated material is added continuously. Materials from forthcoming volumes of Gale's print literature series are added to Literature Resource Center throughout the year, along with full-text journal articles and Web sites. Web sites are checked and death dates, major awards, major literary works, newsworthy events and career-related events are added to biographical essays to keep content accurate and reliable.

Literature Resource Center subscribers can choose to add any of the following products as fully integrated modules:

• Scribner Writers Series, a collection of more than 2200 original, detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world
• Twayne's Authors Series, featuring the content of nearly 600 books in three print series, this series offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and the development of literary genres. The acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. Twayne's Author Series is an ideal starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations. Students can quickly gain results by searching for a specific author, combining search criteria for a more complex search, or exploring thematic and chronological topics.

• Improved usability based on extensive research into end-user needs
• Cross-searchability with LitFinder, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Book Review Index
• Publication search
• "How to Cite" feature with export to citation tools
• Multiple options for sorting and filtering results
• Enhanced Person Search and Title Search options
• Browsable search indexes
• Alerts
• And much more

 [ Guided Tour ]

Scribner Writers Series

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InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students, InfoTrac® Student Edition is the quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions. Student Edition is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians prefer and students enjoy.  InfoTrac Student Edition provides indexing and abstracting of 550 journals with full text of 424 titles.  Additionally, the database includes more than 40,000 full text newspaper articles from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and 300+ full color maps.  In addition, indexing and full text is provided of the following reference books:

•  All Our Yesterdays – Photo Collection of Americana
•  American Reader
•  Asimov’s Chronology of Science & Discovery
•  Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia
•  Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature
•  The Columbia Encyclopedia (single volume)
•  Constitution of the United States
•  Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates
•  Great Thinkers of the Western World
•  Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography
•  Merriam Webster’s Biographical Dictionary
• Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations
•  Merriam Webster’s Geographical Dictionary
•  The Reader’s Companion to American History
•  The World Almanac and Book of Facts

What Do I Read Next?
Powerful search functions and an easy-to-use interface make What Do I Read Next? the most powerful readers' advisory tool available today. Researchers of all ages will enjoy the expertise of specialists, critics and librarians to find the best examples of internationally known fiction and nonfiction.

Gale gives you and your users over 112,500 titles, more than 60,000 plot summaries, 562 awards titles, nearly 1,100 recommended reading lists and biographical information. Most books included in What Do I Read Next? must be an award-winner, a best seller or have appeared on a recommended reading list.  

Genres include inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western and historical novels, general fiction, classic fiction and nonfiction. The user-friendly software includes custom, in-depth search options by title, author, subject, genre, locale and more.

This unique readers' advisory tool allows you to:

• Identify new books to enjoy that meet a personalized reading profile
• Create customized reading lists by using the "Keeper List" function
• Conduct a "Find Similar" title search or view the list of similar titles supplied by genre experts
• Hyperlink between titles and recommended reading and award lists, and between series entries and the titles in the series
• A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month

What Do I Read Next? Is updated on a biannual basis.

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