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Overview

General OneFile and InfoTrac Custom Newspapers are a unique collection of journals and English language newspapers, providing one of the largest aggregations of full text periodical content available to Further Education institutions.

Provider: 
Gale [1]
Posted: 
Jul 22, 2013 6:39pm
Updated: 
Sep 20, 2017 9:06am
Source
Information has been sourced from a JISC catalog [2] entry, with additional edits by CRL.
Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas: 
Arts and Humanities
Health and Life Sciences
Science, Engineering and Technology
Social Sciences
Resource Types: 
Dataset
Electronic journals
News databases

Specifications

Full Text Linking

This resource is compliant with the OpenURL [3] standard.

Federated Searching

This resource is Z39.50 [4] compliant.

Metadata Standards

Gale/Cengage endorses two methods of access and searching for its electronic databases. The first method uses an HTTP-based API and the second uses the Z39.50 protocol. The method selected depends on the design of the relevant metasearch product.

Further information on metadata [5]

Marc Records

General OneFile:

Text and US Marc records can be provided: http://www.gale.com/marc_records/ [6]

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers:

Text and US Marc records can be provided: http://www.gale.com/marc_records/ [6]

Search Options

General OneFile:

Searches can be carried out on single or combined indexes including: Keyword, Full Text, Subject. Cross-searching can be carried with other Gale databases using Thomson Gale PowerSearch.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers:

Searches can be carried out on single or combined indexes including: Keyword, Full Text, Abstract, Author, Publication Date, Newspaper Title/s, Subject, Name (Person, Company, Place), Named Work, Brand Name.

Cross searching can be carried with other Cengage databases using the publisher's PowerSearch.

Post Search Options

Results can be emailed, saved or bookmarked using Infomarks. The database is Z39.80, Procite and EndNote compliant.

Usage Statistics

Usage statistics are available for General OneFile and InfoTrac Custom Newspapers and are COUNTER [7] compliant.

Authentication

Authentication is via the the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, and IP address range.

Terms and Provider Details

Provider: 
Gale [1]
Website: 
http://www.cengage.com/us/ [8]
Main Address: 
27500 Drake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535
United States

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Source URL: https://edesiderata.crl.edu/resources/infotrac-custom-newspapers

Links
[1] https://edesiderata.crl.edu/providers/gale
[2] http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL
[4] http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
[5] https://edesiderata.crl.edu/../../../../Documents/academic%20onefile%20metadata.pdf
[6] http://www.gale.com/marc_records/
[7] http://www.projectcounter.org/
[8] http://www.cengage.com/us/