Texas Newspaper:Dallas Morning News, AUSTIN St, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Victoria Advocate, Austin American – Statesman TX

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Why are periodicals important

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Infotrac Student has almost 700 full text periodicals and some reference content (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Science)

Student Resource Center includes both Reference and Periodical content

Cross curricular content – covers history, literature, geography, science, health, biography and current events.

InfoTrac Student and Student Resource InfoTrac Student and Student Resource CenterCenter

Competitive OverviewCompetitive Overview

Product Total Titles Active Titles Full Text Active Full Text

InfoTrac Student 673 513 588 425

Student Resource Center Gold 1132 913 1132 828

Student Resource Center Silver 856 679 856 630

Student Resource Center Bronze 664 523 664 488

Student Resource Center Junior 335 273 335 258

Mas Ultra -- School Edition 588 404 506 349

Why Are Periodicals Important?Why Are Periodicals Important?

Periodicals provide the most current fact checked editorially reviewed information

Periodicals bridge the gap between the reference book and the internet

Best of both worlds

Fact checked reliability of a reference book

Contemporary relevance of blogs and other internet sources which are inherently unreliable

They supplement the encyclopedia content

I.e. A biography on Anna Nicole Smith written in 2006 in a reference book will give accurate biographical information; however, will show her as still being alive. The periodical content brings the information up to date.

Full Text – the key to our competitive Full Text – the key to our competitive edgeedge

Terms to know

Active Full Text: We currently provide the articles from the periodical in full text through the current date

Full Text: We currently provide full text of the article up to a specified end date. (I.e. The Backfile)

Embargo: We can only publish full text of the magazine after a date specified by the publisher.

What’s in it for your territoryWhat’s in it for your territory

Local Newspaper CoverageLocal Newspaper Coverage

Active Full Text Texas Newspapers:Active Full Text Texas Newspapers:

Austin Statesman (Austin TX) SRCAustin Statesman (Austin TX) SRC

Dallas Morning News (Dallas TX) SRCDallas Morning News (Dallas TX) SRC

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth TX) Full text in SRC for 2000Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth TX) Full text in SRC for 2000

Victoria Advocate (Victoria TX) IT Student and SRCVictoria Advocate (Victoria TX) IT Student and SRC

Active Full text Florida Newspapers:Active Full text Florida Newspapers:

Miami Herald (Miami FL) IT Student and SRCMiami Herald (Miami FL) IT Student and SRC

Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach FL) SRCNorthwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach FL) SRC

Orlando Sentinal (Orlando FL) IT Student and SRCOrlando Sentinal (Orlando FL) IT Student and SRC

South Florida Sun – Sentinal (Fort Lauderdale FL) IT Student and SRCSouth Florida Sun – Sentinal (Fort Lauderdale FL) IT Student and SRC

Tallahasee Democrat (Tallahassee FL) IT Student and SRCTallahasee Democrat (Tallahassee FL) IT Student and SRC

What content?What content?

The magazinesThe magazines

Combine with Reference BooksCombine with Reference Books

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