InfoTrac Expanded Academic

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InfoTrac Expanded Academic

• York College Library
• Information Literacy Series

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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!

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Features

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

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Subject Guide Search

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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
  (12)x26, 1(2x2)5, 12x25
• Examples
• race or (color and discrimination)
• (race or color) and discrimination

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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

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Limit Search

• Limiting to Full-text Articles
• Limiting to Refereed Articles
• Limiting by Publication Date
• You can use the following date formats
• august 16, 1999
• 16 aug 1999
• 8/16/1999
• 19990816
• Limiting to a Specific Journal

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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

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Retrieving Articles

• Printing an Article with Your Browser
• Youll get text with graphics, text,
  abstract, extended citation.
• Using PDF Files (Acrobat Reader)
• Youll get images of article pages as
• printed, formatted text.
• Downloading to a floppy disk
• Youll get text, abstract, citation.
• Sending an Article by Electronic Mail
• Youll get text, abstract, citation.

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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.

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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

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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_at_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.
• More...

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