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May 2007

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Academic General Reference

InfoTrac Student

InfoTrac Junior

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InfoTrac SolutionsInfoTrac Solutions

Database Primary Focus

More than 11,000 magazines covering all subject areas. Strengths in trade publications, travel, hobbies, news, health and academic journals.

More than 4,000 core magazines across disciplines.

1000 of the most searched magazines across all of Infotrac. All the titles were selected based on a library patron’s searches. This database also includes audio content with the transcripts from NPR

More than 1100 magazines and journals appropriate for grades 6-12. This database is cross curricular in its content supporting all areas of the curriculum

More than 300 titles selected for grades 5-7. This database is cross curricular in its content supporting all areas of the curriculum

Periodical Databases for General Research

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Collection of the top 1000 full text magazines searched on across all InfoTrac products

Product designed based on usage by library patrons

100% full text

Includes over 600 titles covered in Magazines for Libraries in active, full-text

Over 75% of “Popular Magazines” contains titles not found in other library databases.*

Introducing: “Introducing: “Popular MagazinesPopular Magazines””

*Compared in May 2007 to Ebsco’s Masterfile Premier

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New from Infotrac: “New from Infotrac: “Popular Magazines”Popular Magazines”

Consumer Reports The New Yorker The New York Times Time Newsweek O, The Oprah Magazine Vanity Fair National Geographic US News and World

Report Library Journal Vogue Fortune Business Week Cosmopolitan National Public Radio

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Popular Magazines covering all topicsPopular Magazines covering all topics

From Science to Sports

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What’s Unique about “What’s Unique about “Popular MagazinesPopular Magazines”?”?

Articles can be translated into 8 different languages.

Full collection of NPR programs from 1990 to present, with searchable transcripts.

Full-text of the New York Times from 1995 to present day.

10 years of full-text, Discover Magazine

Titles were selected based on searches performed by library patrons across the US and Canada

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One simple intuitive interfaceOne simple intuitive interface

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Add award winning Reference and Encyclopedia content

Availability only through Thomson Gale

Seamlessly cross-search “Popular Magazines” and award winning reference simultaneously

““Power SearchPower Search” Popular Magazines with” Popular Magazines withGale Virtual Reference LibraryGale Virtual Reference Library

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Multiple Ways to AccessMultiple Ways to Access

Power Search: DIRECT LINK

E-Book INDEX

E-book: TABLE OF CONTENTS

E-Book: OPAC

UNIQUE COLLECTONS

E-Book: ALL TITLES

POWERSEARCH

24 hours a day… 7 days a week… with unlimited usage…

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““POWER SEARCH it” withPOWER SEARCH it” withGale Virtual Reference LibraryGale Virtual Reference Library

Imagine…

No shelf space issues.

No torn pages.

Equal access and full circulation of multi-volume sets.

No Readers

No Check In/Check Out

24/7 Remote Access

Free MARC Records

Fully Cross-Searchable

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Promotional PricingPromotional Pricing

Popular Magazines: $2500: Yearly subscription

Includes unlimited usage from within the library and remote usage.

E-Books: 10 titles for $2500: One time fee

Unlimited usage

Yearly hosting fees apply

Go to www.gale.com/10for2500 for a complete listing of E-books included in this promotion

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““PowerSearchPowerSearch”…How it works”…How it works

Nearly 100,000,000 articles from the world’s leading

periodicals

More than 1,000 of the world’s leading

reference books

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PowerSearch: User SelectionPowerSearch: User Selection

1. Select your products

2. Submit your selections

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Or, create a default to a Power SearchOr, create a default to a Power Search

Pre-selected databases

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PowerSearch: Cross search resultsPowerSearch: Cross search results

E-Books Displayed Here

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Easy access to all your resourcesEasy access to all your resources

Add a search box to your web pages

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2007 2007 Power search Power search

enhancements…enhancements…

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PowerSearch NowPowerSearch Now

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Changes in 2007Changes in 2007

Narrow by subject

Number of results displayed on the

tab

Search within results

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New Document DisplayNew Document Display

Email, Print, Cite, Translate

Hyperlinked Fields

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Additional New Features in Early 2007Additional New Features in Early 2007

Visual Search

Search alerts in PowerSearch, with RSS export capability

Cleaned up user interface, with easier access to limiters

Better document display, with easier access to InfoMarks and tools

Improved “How-to-Cite” functionality

Tab configuration and “All Results” tab

Enhanced Subject Guide with topic groupings, as well as “limit by subject”

Search within Results

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PowerSearch NowPowerSearch Now

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Power Search now:Power Search now:Additional Databases TabAdditional Databases Tab

Search Additional Gale databases

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PowerSearch PlusPowerSearch PlusVisual Search

Infotrac

Search ALL other library databases

Articles display from all sources

Clustered results by topic

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Article DisplayArticle Display

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Visual SearchVisual Search

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