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InfoTrac OneFile PLUS is a new single electronic resource that provides instant access to an unprecedented number of periodicals. Users rely on InfoTrac OneFile for instant access to periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources -- from The New York Times to refereed academic journals.
For researchers at all levels, periodical and news information is now available in one user-friendly electronic resource. InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 3,100 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of more than 6,000 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 18 million database records at your users' fingertips with a single search query. It includes:
  • Newswires -- 89 wire services 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.
 

Gale Virtual Reference Library is taking eBooks to the next level by delivering a wealth of reference content in a database format. This valuable new product allows libraries of any size - based on user's needs and usage patterns - to develop collections at their own pace and within their own budget.

This new reference option also offers:

  • 24/7 remote access
  • Circulation of reference content
  • Cross searching
  • Expanded searching for difficult-to-find material
  • No need for special hardware or an online reader

Gale Virtual Reference Library offers more than 85 reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more, allowing libraries to provide respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library provides the flexibility to buy one eBook or multiple eBooks; search across a single eBook or an entire eBook collection.
 

General Reference Center Gold integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles to fully answer your patrons' reference questions -- all in a single database. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center Gold has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need. Available 24 hours a day via the Internet, this comprehensive reference database quickly delivers the answers to a wide variety of reference questions both at the library or from remote sites. And InfoTrac's powerful, intuitive interface makes it easy for users to search all of these different sources in one seamless process.
General Reference Center Gold features hyperlinks between and even within sources, providing point-and-click navigation to related topics and articles. For instance, you can click on highlighted works within a full-text article from The Columbia Encyclopedia and go right to related articles within the encyclopedia. Many articles also provide links to related sources outside of the current article: reference books, magazine and newspaper articles. General Reference Center Gold features a wide variety of general interest and business magazines and periodicals including:
  • Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper articles
  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Christian Science Monitor
  • Children's magazines
  • More than 15 reference books
  • More than 2,000 titles including 1,200 in full text
Expanded Academic PLUS is the Gale Group's 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 2,300 indexed and 1,300 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.
 
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (New York Times and Los Angeles Times)
Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields.

You can customize the product name, screen layout, search parameters and results display to meet the needs of your library and your users. Search results are delivered electronically from the newspaper, providing an electronic edition for your users featuring the articles they need. Understanding current events depends on your access to relevant articles printed in response to events when they happened. With InfoTrac® Custom Newspapers - New York Times, you can:

  • Receive more accurate results with our proper name indexing
  • Use section searching to retrieve articles from specific newspaper sections
  • Compare opposing viewpoints on controversial issues
  • Get first-hand accounts on historical events
  • Improve genealogy research through proper name indexing
  • Study current events as they are reported
     
Computer Database
For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet- accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.
 
Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module
This revolutionary resource answers the need for a fully integrated, ever-growing electronic resource center for all levels of health research. Rely on the Health & Wellness Resource Center for instant access to carefully compiled medical reference and periodical materials that your users can trust. It features:
  • A broad collection of Gale Group reference titles
  • Access to full-text articles from reference and periodical literature with a single search
  • Pamphlets, news and other content
  • Access to key health Web search engines for optimal, customized Internet research
  • A fully updated, easy-to-use interface with InfoTrac® searching functionality
  • Browser style format on home page
  • General interest and curriculum-based add-on modules, beginning with Alternative Health Module

One-stop access
For researchers at all levels -- from general interest to 4-year college level students -- a world of health information is now available in one user-friendly electronic resource. For one-stop access to authoritative health information with integrated access to medical, health and wellness information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of authoritative medical information to academic, medical and public libraries. A single search gives users instant access to hundreds of journals, approximately 800 pamphlets, and many encyclopedias, including:

  • Clinical Reference Systems
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
  • Medical and Health Information Directory
  • PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health
  • And much more

Intuitive, fully updated interface
The Health & Wellness Resource Center 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.

Add-on modules
This database is designed to meet the need for a full range of health information, from specific technical topics to general interest subjects. The Health & Wellness Resource Center offers add-on modules to meet growing needs and stay current with trends. The Alternative Health Module addresses the increasing general interest in alternative medicine. It combines a broad range of trusted reference and periodical content supplemented by Web sites, pamphlets, news and other content.
 

Student Edition
Formerly SuperTOM, InfoTrac® Student Edition is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
 
Junior Edition
InfoTrac® Junior Edition is designed for students in junior high and middle school and offers them magazines, newspapers and reference books (most full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
 
Kid's Edition
InfoTrac® Kids Edition
is designed for elementary school students, giving them easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books with information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
 
Professional Collection
A collection of journals picked for their relevance in the modern world for today's professional.
 
Business & Company Resource Center
Because business information is only as good as its source, provide your users with a comprehensive, single-source database they can depend on for accurate and up-to-date business, company and industry information -- the Gale Group's new Business & Company Resource Center.
The first of its kind, Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities. The database includes:
  • Company profiles, including corporate parent/sibling relationships
  • Industry ranking
  • 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

Business & Company Resource Center meets core curriculum requirements for undergraduate and graduate case study work in finance, economics and marketing, and provides a wealth of information for anyone researching prospective employers. 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

 

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