About Those Databases

Courtesy of the Greenfield Public Library, here are some descriptions of the Gale InfoTrac Databases that you may find helpful.

InfoTrac is broken down into separate units that index magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, sports, medicine, arts and humanities, science and technology; provide company profiles, company rankings, investment reports, market trends; and much more. Search them one at a time or search several simultaneously. InfoTrac now has podcasts available as well as the ability to change the text into one of eight languages.

Databases include:

Academic OneFile (academic journals; contains transcripts and podcasts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC; also includes full-text NY Times content back to 1995)
Biography Resource Center (includes over 1 million thumbnail biographies)
Business and Company ASAP (research businesses; no investment analysts' reports)
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (essays on contemporary writers; includes biography and list of sources for further review)
Expanded Academic ASAP (full-text articles on Astronomy, Religion, Lay, History, Pyschology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications, and the General Sciences)
General BusinessFile ASAP (use to research all business and management topics; directory listings for 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries)
General Reference Center Gold (general interest database on current events, arts and culture, sports, etc.)
Health Reference Center Academic (full-text articles designed for nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health research)
InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition (for junior high and middle school students)
InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition (for high school students)
InfoTrac OneFile (comprehensive periodical resources; content goes back to 1980)
Kids InfoBits (targets grades K-5 with 75 full-text curriculum related magazines and 7 reference books)
Educator's Reference Complete (over 300 full-text journals for educators, administrators, and librarians)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (over 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science)
Massachusetts History Online
New York Times 1995 - present