InfoTrac Onefile

OK, so what does that mean? InfoTrac General OneFile is a database that has a wide subject coverage. You should find something here to support your academic study.

It is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics such as: business, current events, economics, health care, law, politics, science, technology, and much more. The timeframe covered is 1980 through to 2011 and it is updated daily.

What does it contain?

• Full-text titles, images, refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers.

• More than 500 travel guides, including hundreds of Fodor's titles

• The full collection of National Public Radio programs from 1990 to the present, including searchable transcripts

• Full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present, updated daily

• The ability to translate articles into 11 different languages, helping ESL researchers

• More than 4,000 full-text titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries"

• Access to a range of additional new collections created to fill subject-specific curricular needs

How does it work?

You have different search options:

• Browse by subject or publication

• “Search for words in” subject, keyword, and entire document with the search box

• Advanced search You also have a “limit results” option to refine your search:

• To documents with full-text

• To peer-reviewed publications

• To documents with images

When you have your search results displayed, you are shown what category they are in such as magazines, academic journals, books, news, or multimedia.

You can then further sort your results by publication date and relevance.

When you have found a suitable result that you wish to use, you have a “tool box” that enables you to bookmark, cite, download, download mp3, email, print preview, share, access a dictionary and translate.

Give it a go and you might just find that missing piece of information to add that extra authority to your research. The database does contain New Zealand data and information. For further assistance with the databases, please contact any Help Desk.

Vanessa