Section 1: Basic Registration

An * denotes a required field.

 

*Primary Contact, Name:

 

*Institution Name:

 

*Primary Contact, Email:

*City/Town:

 

*Primary Contact, Phone Number:

 

Primary Contact, Fax Number:

VUC Code:
       

If you would like to receive monthly usage statistics by database please enter your email address.

Statistics Recipient, Email:

If you would like to receive access to IT Config, please enter your email address.
Access information to IT Config will be included in your access email that is sent out by Gale once your account is created.

IT Config, is a Web-based tool you can use to customize
InfoTrac Web for your library. InfoTrac Config allows you to choose the
search strategies you want to make available to your staff and patrons, to
customize your databases and search hints, to print selected usage reports, and more.

IT Config Access, Email:


 

After you have registered, you will receive two e-mail messages from the Gale Group. The first will acknowledge the receipt of your registration and the second will contain your account information. The account information will contain a site-specific URL for access, statistical collection, and remote access purposes. Gale Group will also supply the password for remote access to your URL. Most registrations are complete within 48 hours. Please continue to check your e-mail for the messages.

Are you currently an InfoTrac subscriber?

Yes No

Go to Section 4 to complete your registration or continue to
Section 2 (optional) to set up access via IP address and/or Patron Barcode or Section 3 (optional) .

Section 2: Advanced Registration
If you know your institution's IPs, please enter them below:

 

Please submit your institution's static public IP address(es) that are broadcast to the Internet.
If you do not know your public IP address(es) please use the link below to
do a look-up to find out what IP address(es) are being broadcast.
You will need to complete this process on each computer that will access the databases.
If you are not sure about this process, please contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or
Network Administrator and ask them for your institution's public IPs.

          IP lookup

If you do not have static IPs please leave the above field empty and you will be provided with a
cookie password to access the Gale databases from within your institution.

Gale has the ability to allow users to log in remotely to the Gale databases using a library barcode.
If your institution uses barcodes or patron IDs where the first several characters are similar and they are all
the same number in length Gale can set up Remote Patron Authentication with this information.
Example barcodes: 53233123456789, 53233023432458, 53233875434901
Where the first 5 digits are the same and the total number of digits is 14 for all of your barcodes.

Please enter your barcode format below:
Remote Patron Authentication, Barcode:

Example format: 53233xxxxxxxxx

Section 3: Special Comments

Comments:

 

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Section 4: Complete Registration
Once your registration or change request has been verified, it will be forwarded on to Gale for account creation or modification.
Gale will create your account and/ or modify your account and then notify you by email with the necessary information for you to start accessing your databases.