InfoTrac Expanded Academic

York College Library

Information Literacy Series

Background

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - Current month

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!

Features Astronomy Communications Current Events General Sciences History Humanities Law Psychology Religion Sociology

Subject Guide Search

Subject Field: Subject headings People Companies Geographic locations Events Organizations Statutes

Keyword(s) Search Keyword search lets you match

words in the articles themselves, not just in controlled index terms, thus a more flexible search method.

Keywords include everything you can search with a Subject Guide search as well as plenty that you can't.

Stop Words

Stop words are small words that are not indexed.

Stop words include such words as a, and, etc., in, of, on and to

Wildcards An asterisk (*) stands for any

number of characters, including none

A question mark (?) stands for exactly one character

An exclamation point (!) stands for one or no characters

Logical Operators (Boolean)

The and operator specifies that both words on either side of the operator must occur in the part of a record you're searching for that record to match.

The or operator specifies that one or the other or both of the words on either side of the operator must occur in the part of a record you're searching for that record to match.

The not operator specifies that the word before the operator must occur but the word after the operator must not occur for a record to match.

Nesting Operators When you nest entries, the search

system performs the operation within parentheses first, then merges the result with the part of the entry outside the parentheses. Think of math logic: (1+2)x2=6, 1+(2x2)=5, 1+2x2=5

Examples:

race or (color and discrimination)

(race or color) and discrimination

Advanced Search Abstract ab Words in abstracts and

authors' abstracts Author au Names of article

authors Keyword ke Words in titles, authors,

and Gale Group-assigned index terms Refereed re "ref" Subject su Words from indexed

subjects Text Word tx Words in article text Title ti Words in article titles

Limit Search Limiting to Full-text Articles Limiting to Refereed Articles Limiting by Publication DateYou can use the following date formats:

august 16, 1999

16 aug 1999

8/16/1999

19990816 Limiting to a Specific Journal

Search Results Citation List:

brief references to articles Article Display:

might include as little as an extended citation or as much as full text and graphics

Expand Search:

The link at the bottom of the record that takes you to other subdivisions lets you expand your search

Retrieving Articles Printing an Article with Your Browser

You’ll get text with graphics, text, abstract, extended citation.

Using PDF Files (Acrobat Reader)

You’ll get images of article pages as

printed, formatted text. Downloading to a floppy disk

You’ll get text, abstract, citation. Sending an Article by Electronic Mail

You’ll get text, abstract, citation.

Online Dictionary

Click on the Dictionary link, enter a word, and click on OK

If what you enter matches a word in the dictionary, you'll see the page of the dictionary where the definition or definitions are found.

How to Cite an Article from InfoTrac

Whichever style is used, a citation from InfoTrac will generally contain the following:

author (if applicable)

title

name of publication

publication information

pages or indication of length

source (InfoTrac)

accession number (i.e., article #) if possible

download date

Tips and Tricks Always bring a floppy disk with you. When print, use the Print button in the left-hand

column. Do not use the regular procedure in Netscape.

When downloading, change document type to Plain Text {*.txt} if you will use a word processing program, i.e., MS Word or WordPerfect to open it.

Currently, The New York Times articles are in citations only. use Lexis-Nexis or Dialog@CARL for full-text.

In Advanced Search-Author Search, you may not see the result immediately on the screen. Scroll down to near bottom.

Select all items in Citation List selects the current screen (20 records) only.

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