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Periodical Solutions for Public Libraries

An overview of periodical offerings for Public Libraries

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More than 110,000,000 articles

from the world’s leading periodicals

More than 2000 of the world’s leading

reference books from over 45 publishers

Award Winning Platform

Most Improved Product Award -- 2007

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General OneFile60% Unique

Content Overview

12,000 Titles

7,736 Peer Reviewed

4,486 Full Text

2,587 Active, Full-text Peer Reviewed

11,600 Titles

2,972 Magazines for Libraries

6,756 Full Text

5,493 Unique Titles

Academic OneFile60% Unique

Academic Journals General Magazines

More than 18,600 titles combined

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InfoTrac 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 Database overview

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• Largest collection of full-text magazines available – almost 8000 full text titles

• 99% with no embargo

• Includes greater backfile coverage of key periodicals than any other database (Time, US News & World Report, Newsweek)

• Includes almost 3000 titles recommended by Bowkers Magazines for Libraries in active, full-text

• Podcasts, video and audio content from many major news agencies

• Nearly 65 million articles at a user’s fingertips

General OneFile

More than 500 travel guides, including every Fodor Travel Guide published in 2006 and 2007.

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

Full-text of the New York Times now from 1985 to present day.

10 years of full-text, Discover Magazine

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• GRC Gold now contains almost 6000 titles

• Over 3500 full text titles

• Podcasts, video and audio content from many major news agencies

• Nearly 45 million articles at a user’s fingertips

General Reference Center Gold

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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: “Popular Magazines”

*Compared in May 2007 to Ebsco’s Masterfile Premier

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InfoTrac provides hundreds of leading magazines and journals that provide coverage of the 2008 presidential election.

From scholarly journals, popular magazines and the complete collection of NPR radio shows with broadcast transcripts, use your InfoTrac database to follow every aspect of the electoral process.

Political coverage available in InfoTrac

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Political coverage coming in 2008

To complement our existing periodical and audio election coverage we will be adding links to video content from National Review

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Additional, Student Databases

Databases for Homework Help

InfoTrac StudentMore than 1,000 full-text titles for high school students

InfoTrac JuniorMore than 330 full-text titles for middle school students

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Infotrac Custom Newspapers has increased from 400 newspapers to more than 900 newspapers in the last 2 years.

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New Technology

NEW: Sort by Newspaper Section

NEW: Search within results

NEW: Create search alert

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New from InfoTrac:

•Collection of major cooking/nutrition magazines

•Thousands of searchable recipes

•Restaurant reviews, industry information

•Available as a “stand alone” database

•Included with your purchase of General One File

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New From InfoTrac

This collection of over 250 home improvement focused titles, for hobbyists and professional carpenters alike.

Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

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New from InfoTrac

•Strong coverage of landscape design, botany

•More than 100 magazines and a series of trade gardening books

•Fully illustrated

A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

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New from InfoTrac

•More than 500 travel guides (with maps) from Fodor’s and Hunter Publishing

•Major travel magazines

•Strong focus on the hospitality industry as a business and profession

With current and relevant content from over 375 industry journals, and the complete Fodor travel guide collection, the Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure Collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field

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The Launch of “PowerSearch Plus”

Search all Gale Databases

Search All Other Databases

Search Library Catalog

Search Open Web

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PowerSearch Plus: So how does it work?

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Getting started….

Place a search box on your library page, or

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Or access through the PowerSearch link

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PowerSearch Plus: So how does it work?

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Results….

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PowerSearch PlusSearch ALL other library databases

Articles display from all sources

Clustered results by topic

Limit articles by publication date or

source

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Search the Library Catalog

Library catalog details are shown

here

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PowerSearch Plus: A Common Question on Gale Sources

• “Since this is a Gale platform, I suspect Gale resources are going to be returned more frequently than other sources, correct?”

• Not true. The search results are equal among all databases, providing each database has the content to retrieve. Let’s take an example to illustrate this:

200 retrievals10 data sources

Data source #120 resultsData source #2

20 resultsData source #320 resultsData source #4

20 resultsData source #520 resultsData source #6

20 resultsData source #720 resultsData source #8

20 resultsData source #920 resultsData source #10

20 results

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Outline view

Phase I: PowerSearch Plus

orMap view

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Outline view

Phase II: PowerSearch Plus (Q1 2008)

Visual Search

Map view

Visual Search will include all data sources, including the PowerSearch results now shown in the other tabs

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PowerSearch Plus Pricing

All Gale databases can be searched at no charge.

Only pay to search other vendor’s databases and your catalog.

Priced much lower than your typical federated search.

Fixed pricing that is simple to understand.

• We do not charge you per database.

• Pricing based on full collection (1-10, 11-25, 25-50, 50+ databases)

• There’s no installation fee.

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PowerSearch: New Search features

Did You Mean?

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 document tools

Improved “How-to-Cite” functionality

Tab configuration

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

Search within Results

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Did You Mean?

“Did You Mean?” offers suggestions when a user misspells a term or phrase. Below, a search on

“alcoholizm” brings forth the following suggestions.

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Also Try“Also Try” feature helps users find better

information. Example below suggests “Capital Punishment” when user searches on “death

penalty.”

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Better ResultsColored Tabs, with

number of results per tab.

Easy access to limiters, including “Search Within

Results”

“Instant Limiters” allowing users to quickly find

information.

Libraries can choose their default tab. “Reference”

has been changed to “Books,” as it is a term more users are familiar

with.

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Better Document DisplayVisible document subject headings. Fielded values

provide more information about

the article.

Document Tools tell user what they can do with the article:

view PDF, print, email, cite, translate,

etc.

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Improved Citations

Improved citations now include accurate fields and formatting,

per latest APA and MLA standards.

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Search Alerts/RSSUsers can now generate a Search Alert when viewing results or a

Journal Alert when viewing a publication. This service pushes new content to the user via email as it is

loaded into the database(s).

Users can also take advantage of Gale’s RSS service, which

automatically sends content into their reader.

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More Publication Details

Expanded details include a publication description, embargo and coverage

information, publisher contact information, etc.

Journal Alerts now available.

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Questions and Answers.

Thank you.