navigating through gale infotrac
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Navigating through Gale InfotracNavigating through Gale Infotrac
By: Marilyn Lalrindiki
Gale InfotracInfoTrac is a family of
full text databases of content from academic journals and general magazines, of which the majority are targeted to the English-speaking North American market. As is typical of online proprietary databases, various forms of authentication are used to verify affiliation with subscribing academic, public, and school libraries. InfoTrac databases are published by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning.
Go to http://www.lakeviewspartans.org/webpages/lhslibrary/
and press RESEARCH to get to this page:
Make sure to click on Gale Infotrac under General Databases
Once you have reached Gale Infotrac, decide on the subject you would be interested in searching.
Click on the subject you want to do research on, for this guide, we will choose Diversity Studies
Collection.
Diversity Studies Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework.
When you click on the Diversity Studies Collection, type in your topic that you want to
research. In this guide, we will stick with the topic of “Asian countries”.
Click on the magnifying glass and press it to search your result.
After you click on the magnifying glass, you will get to this page. On the side bar, you
can choose which resource you wish to use.
On the side bar, there are more options that you can choose to see more of by pressing the + on the upper right
hand corner to help you narrow down your research.
You can also decide how old or new you want your resources to be choosing your
preference in this drop down menu.
When you scroll down to look at the sources, you will notice that the dates are properly listed, as well
as word count, reading level, etc.
If you’re not much of a reader, you can choose to listen to the audio of the
article!
Citation can be found on the very bottom of the page so you don’t even have to worry about citing it yourself!
Not only that, but under Tools, you can e-mail the article, download it, print it, highlight
and make notes, etc.
The End
And there you have it! You just learned how to research and find resources for “Asian
countries”, what tools you can use to narrow it and how to even cite your work
(which is literally provided for you!)
