Talk:InfoTrac

Talk from Infotrac page

 * 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 .

“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 .

“ 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 .

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)

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 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)

Infotrac is not a database
Infotrac is a registered trademark by Gale Publishing. It is not, and never has been a "database." Saying "I used Infotrac" is like saying "I read Houghton-Mifflin. There are a large number of databases listed under the "Infotrac" trademark (and corresponding interface). The word "Infotrac" is pretty much an adjective which precedes a specific database (e.g., Infotrac Religion and Philosophy). This article needs to be rewritten (or deleted) and I'm not sure where to start. But, at least I can document the almost universal ignorance about the term here. --Quartermaster (talk) 20:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That doesn't sound quite right. Up until messing everything up with the launch of Power Search, Gale Group consistently used Infotrac as their primary database interface brand.  It's like how I could log onto LexisNexis and go to ALLCASES, or I could log onto EBSCO and go to Academic Search Premier.  Similarly, I could log onto Infotrac and connect to Expanded Academic ASAP or General BusinessFile ASAP, etc.  Okay, maybe you're right that it wasn't a single database per se, but it wasn't a mere adjective used to brand individual databases either.  Rather, like the other major information providers, it was a brand used to market the parent interface, under which subscribers could connect to individual content collections.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 22:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * You seem to be bolstering my point by stating "Infotrac as their primary database interface brand." And, yes, it is a mere adjective (since they change the software, the underlying label remains the same) as well as a brand. I understand WHY people thought what they were using was called "InfoTrac" because the word was usually the largest thing on the screen. Typically, smaller institutions (like high schools) might have just a single InfoTrac database and by default that becomes "InfoTrac." But the term, just like "Ovid" and "Lexis-Nexis" and "ProQuest" and "Ebsco" does not refer to a single database. I've had people come to the reference desk I work at and ask to use "InfoTrac" when what they're looking for is "InfoTrac Custom Newspapers" which they used at the local public library. If I send them to our "InfoTrac" they could be using "InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP" which does not have the newspapers they're looking to use. Neither of the sources in those two "InfoTrac" databases overlap. It is incorrect and a disservice to tell people that "InfoTrac" is a database, especially if you're an institution, like ours, with numerous Gale and "InfoTrac" branded resources. We have removed mentions of "Ovid" and "InfoTrac" and "Ebsco" from our A-Z listing of databases, and now direct people to the specifically named database, e.g., Academic OneFile. Now Academic OneFile IS the database and people may refer to it and search InfoTrac Academic OneFile, but nowhere are they searching anything called "InfoTrac." Again, it's like saying "I read Houghton-Mifflin, can you help me find that book again?" I'm not railing against ignorance, I'm trying to be accurate and keep end users from being tripped up by branding run amuck. We have access to 22 different "InfoTrac" databases on our site. All of them say "Powered by InfoTrac®" but not a single one called InfoTrac.


 * If you go to the Gale site itself and look at their InfoTrac brochure, you will find constant references to specific databases with the brand/buzzword "InfoTrac" bandied about. But nowhere can you find, or get a subscription to, anything simply called "InfoTrac." --Quartermaster (talk) 01:06, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Notability tag removal
Hi, all. With the free access I get to this archive via my local (U.S.A.) public library, I see the InfoTrac resource there is also labeled as the "Expanded Academic ASAP" index, evidently one of the archive products offered under the InfoTrac trademark. Since this is so widely recognized and so widely used a reserach tool, and since my time is short, I'm not going to add refs to manifest notability. But search google news archive ( not just google news ) and you'll find dozens of news articles in e.g. Library Journal as well as the popular press that mention or discuss the "Expanded Academic ASAP". I've removed the notability tag in this edit, but have retained the previously existing cite tag. – OhioStandard  (talk) 04:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Improper notability tagging by User:Piotrus in September 2015
InfoTrac was and still is a commonly available and well-known database that for many years has been found in university libraries around the world and has a user base in the millions. Questioning its notability is nearly as bizarre as questioning the notability of America Online, CompuServe, Minitel, LexisNexis, Dialog, etc. --Coolcaesar (talk) 04:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Widely known is not, however a criteria satisfying WP:GNG. We require sources. Could you provide some? This was proposed for speedy before, and notability tag has been added and removed from here before, all without anyone adding good sources. Ping User:DGG, User:Randykitty. Note I am not currently proposing this for deletion, I am just asking - can anyone find a source that shows this topic satisfies GNG/NSOFT? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:07, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Infotrac is very highly notable. It's not a database as such, but what we call a database aggregator, and it was one of the pioneers for such systems, including periods using with quite a number of formats and delivery methods, most of them eventual dead ends until the web has gotten them somewhat standardized--the article discusses them very well.  The trademark is not as important now as it used to be, and there have been a good many acquisitions and name changes and the like within the industry all through its history, but notability is permanent. The article needs referencing, and there are available sources--all library databases get extensively reviewed in great detail both because of their importance   to library service, and their very high expense -- up to an order of magnitude higher than any other library resource -- (as I well know, having written a few such reviews, tho never for their product in any of its incarnations).     I will try to find someone with the time to do it.  DGG ( talk ) 06:20, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

"General OneFile" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_OneFile&redirect=no General OneFile] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 05:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)