Talk:InfoTrac

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• The following talks are from the Infotrac discussion page. Combined with this one due to combination of the main article --Jingshen 08:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I do not have to time edit and format the actual Infotrac page so I will post useful information about Infotrac here.

“Remote access to Thomson Gale databases is permitted to patrons of subscribing institutions who access from remote locations. Such remote access is limited to non-commercial purposes. Remote access from a non-subscribing institution is not permitted if done for cost reduction or avoidance at that institution. For additional information, please reference the Copyright and Terms of Use link below.”

The following is a list of the Thompson Gale searchable databases as listed on their comon menu page, which is only accessable after login. (I will not give out my High School's login):

“Student Resource Center - Gold

Student Resource Center - Gold offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists.

Student Resource Center - Junior

Student Resource Center - Junior offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. For Middle Schools only.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center NOV, 2006

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

General Reference Center Gold 1980 - NOV, 2006

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias 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).

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.”

A complete list of titles found in the database can be accessed at the below address http://www.gale.com/title_lists/

Here are some more random bits courtesy of infotrac

“Thomson Gale added The Times (London) into InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Researchers can now search 220 years' worth of The Times' content through The Times Digital Archive or InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. The Times Digital Archive is a fully searchable database of images of every page of The Times in its original published format, from the newspaper's inception in 1785 through the end of 1985. There are nearly 8 million articles [800/8774253; www.galegroup.com].”

Source Citation:

"Thomson Gale added The Times (London) into InfoTrac Custom Newspapers.(Current Awareness)(Brief Article)." Online. 29. 1 (Jan-Feb 2005): 8(1). Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale. Poway High School. 20 Nov. 2006 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=SRC-1&docId=A127434994&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=poway_phs&version=1.0>.

“Gale added the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography to its Infotrac search platform. This literature and humanities reference tool includes 1.5 million citations from 8,000 journals, dating from 1963 to the present, and is known for its coverage in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.”

Source Citation:

"Gale added the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography to its Infotrac search platform. (Social Sciences & Humanities).(Brief Article)." Online. 27. 3 (May-June 2003): 10(1). Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale. Poway High School. 20 Nov. 2006 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=SRC-1&docId=A101531887&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=poway_phs&version=1.0>.

“ Full Text : COPYRIGHT 2001 Information Today, Inc. Gale Group has announced it has formed a partnership with ingenta that will integrate ingenta's 4,500 scholarly and academic e-journals within Gale's InfoTrac Web. Later this year, people who search InfoTrac Web periodical databases will be able to seamlessly check the ingenta service for articles matching their searches. Subscribers hosted by ingenta will automatically be linked to the full-text content from their searches. According to the announcement, this partnership is one of a series of steps by Gale to interlink its databases within the larger Web and library environments. Other moves include support of the Open URL standard to allow searchers to scan SFX-compliant databases without leaving InfoTrac Web. Additionally, Gale has launched MARC records with InfoMarks, which will allow OPAC searchers to hotlink to relevant information within InfoTrac Web, and also a Web-based-links-to-holdings feature to search library holdings from InfoTrac Web. In a separate news release, Gale and Ancestry.com announced they are joining forces on a new online genealogy service for libraries. AncestryPlus will integrate Ancestry.com's information resources, including more than 10 million images of the U.S. Federal Census forms, with Gale's genealogical references in a simple Web interface. Ancestry.com is a consumer online service containing records on more than 1 billion names. In addition to its store of the entire U.S. Federal Census forms from 1790-1920, Ancestry.com also provides information from vital, church, military, and court and probate records.”

Source Citation:

"Gale Creates Partnerships, Gains New Services.(partners with ingenta and Ancestry.com)." Computers in Libraries. 21. 8 (Sept 2001): 17. Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale. Poway High School. 20 Nov. 2006 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=SRC-1&docId=A78402009&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=poway_phs&version=1.0>.

I will try to add more later, and hopefully try to do something with the actual page. Lost0890 05:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

An excerpt from the terms and conditions page at http://www.gale.com/epcopyright/index.htm#terms

"The subscribing institutes ("Customer") and their authorized users, may make a single print, non-electronic copy of a permitted portion of the content for personal, non-commercial, educational purposes only. Except as expressly provided for in the foregoing sentence, you may not modify, publish, transmit (including, but not limited to, by way of e-mail, facsimile or other electronic means), display, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works based on, or in any other way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Thomson Gale and (if applicable) its licensor" Lost0890 20:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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I'm a big speedy tagger myself, but InfoTrac is a well-known academic search tool. Let's give it some time to get it out of stub status. --JaimeLesMaths ^(talk|edits) 07:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I will defer to your judgment and withdraw the speedy. Seraphimblade 01:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

This page was added in order to provide a link for an earlier mention in an article about the producer, (which I did not write,) and will be expanded.

I am attempting to do this with such resources when I come across them, and would be grateful for your ideas about what material constitutes a respectable minimum. DGG 04:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Seraphimblade, thanks for understanding. I seem to recall using InfoTrac way back in middle school, so it's been around awhile. I think the key to making this a good article is to say clearly what distinguishes it from other similar services (like JSTOR, Lexis-Nexis, etc.). Hmm, I wonder if you can InfoTrac an article about the creation of InfoTrac... --JaimeLesMaths ^(talk!edits) 03:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)