Cookie Cutter

This tool has been created for customers who are required to have multiple Thomson Gale accounts (or location ID's). Often, this is the case with customers who subscribe to Gale databases through two purchasing sources "State Wide Deals" and "Individually". 

To check to see if you need to read further you need to meet both the following conditions

1. Your Thomson Gale subscriptions are located upon multiple location id's (InfoTrac / GaleNet Accounts)

AND

2. You are using one or both of : 

   1. Thomson Gale's MARC 856 records in your online searching catalog;
      
      OR

2. Thomson Gale's InfoMark's Technology.

Why should I implement the Gale Cookie Cutter?

This cookie cutter will stop your users from receiving access errors when they are using InfoMarks and MARC 856 records. This tool will enable your end users to access your Gale subscriptions with seamless efficiency. 

Using Gale's Cookie Cutter Tool with MARC 856

To use Gale's Cookie Cutter Tool with MARC 856 URL's you will need to edit the MARC records that you download from Gale's web site. 

Step 1.

You will need to add a "location id" (also known as a user identifier) to the end of each of the URL's 

?sw_aep=MYLOCATIONIDHERE

Your URL's should look like, where "gale" is your location id. 

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc3%5fEAIM%5F0%5F%5Fjn+%
22Alif%3a+Journal+of+Comparative+Poetics%22?sw_aep=mylocid

Step 2. 

To enable to cookie cutter tool to work with your MARC 856 URL's you will need to add it to the start of these URL's. The prefix that you are adding is the following

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/cookie_cutter?URL=

This will result in your MARC 856 URL's to look like the following. 

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/cookie_cutter?URL=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark
/1/1/1/purl=rc3%5fEAIM%5F0%5F%5Fjn+%22Alif%3a+Journal+of+Comparative+Poetics
%22?sw-aep=mylocid

Important Notes : 

Please ensure that you have the correct database and location ID's aligned. The Cookie Cutter tool will force the end user to the location id that you have entered in the URL in Step 1. above.

Using Gale's Cookie Cutter Tool with InfoMarks

To use Gale's Cookie Cutter Tool with InfoMarks you will need to add a prefix of the cookie cutter tool to your InfoMark

Step 1. 

Save your InfoMark (note that your InfoMark will include your location id where the URL below has "mylocid")

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC?c=1&ste=3&txb=%2522Environmentalism%09
%2522&slb=SU&tbst=ts_basic&srchtp=basic&locID=mylocid

Step 2. 

Add the Cookie Cutter prefix to the start of the InfoMark that you have saved. 

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/cookie_cutter?URL=

This will result in your Edited InfoMark URL to look like the following. 

 http://infotrac.galegroup.com/cookie_cutter?URL=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC?c=
1&ste=3&txb=%2522Environmentalism%09%2522&slb=SU&tbst=ts_basic&srchtp=basic&locID=mylocid

How do I find out my Location ID?

Your location ID is found in your access URL's and at the end of InfoMarks. An Example below of a couple of start urls's with the location id of "mylocid":

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mylocid

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mylocid?db=OVRC

You can find your location ID in InfoMarks as well, below there are two examples of InfoMarks with the location ID of "mylocid":

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC?c=1&ste=3&txb=%2522Environmentalism%09%25
22&slb=SU&tbst=ts_basic&srchtp=basic&locID=mylocid

http://web5.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/845/254/33836860w5/purl=rc10_ITOF_Health+
Care+Coalitions_5ma_xx________________________________________________________&d
yn=3!sln_33+0+1?sw_aep=mylocid

What Types of Authentication does this work with?

This tool will work with all of Thomson Gale's authentication methods. If you are using Dial-Up cookies then you will have to discuss the implications with a Thomson Gale Technical Support Representative as there may be some side issues to consider, otherwise all other methods will work with this cookie cutter tool: 

• IP Authentication

• Referring URL

• Password 

• Barcode

• Library Hosted Passwords (RPAS-Scripting)

Learn more about Thomson Gale's Authentication methods.