Texas Library Connection

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ESC 20 June 19th, 2000
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I N F O R M A T I O N I N T E G R I T Y
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A G E N D A
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Gale Groups Family ofInfoTrac Periodical
Databases

• Age/grade appropriate content
• Superior title count
• Ease of use
• Flexibility of interface

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Age/Grade Appropriate Content
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Age/Grade Appropriate Content
Elementary Schools
Kids Edition

• Over 35 Full Text Magazines
• Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper
  Articles (Age Appropriate)
• Intuitive, easy to use interface

Middle / Jr. High Schools
Junior Edition

• Over 50 Full Text Magazines
• Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper
  Articles
• The Readers Companion to American History
• Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary

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Age/Grade Appropriate Content
High Schools
Student Edition

• Nearly 200 Full Text Magazines
• Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper
  Articles
• 500 Historical Images Over 300 Color Maps
• Encyclopedias Almanacs
• The Readers Companion to American History

High Schools / College Prep.
General Reference Center Gold

• 700 Full Text Magazines
• Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper
  Articles
• Indexing of New York Times, Wall Street Journal
  and The Christian Science Monitor
• Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary
• Reference Books, Encyclopedias Almanacs

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Age/Grade Appropriate Content
College Prep. / Professional Development
Expanded Academic Index ASAP

• 1300 Full Text Periodicals, 2300 Indexed /
  Abstracted
• 663 Refereed Journals
• IA for New York Times and Wall Street Journal
• Full Text for The Christian Science Monitor

Spanish Language
Informe!

• Spanish language database
• Full Text for 50 popular Hispanic magazines
• Includes El Nuevo Herald

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Easy to Use Interfaces
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I N F O T R A C S U P P O R T S T H E C U R
R I C U L U M
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InfoTrac Supports the Curriculum
Sciences
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InfoTrac Supports the Curriculum
Math
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InfoTrac Supports the Curriculum
Spanish Language
Informe
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InfoTrac Delivers Access to All Curriculum Areas

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B E Y O N D P E R I O D I C A L D A T A
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B E Y O N D P E R I O D I C A L D A T A
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• Nearly 8,000 reference documents from UXL
  sources
• 8,000 photographs and illustrations
• More than 50 video and audio clips
• Three complete Merriam-Webster's resources
  Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition,
  Biographical Dictionary, and Geographical
  Dictionary
• E-mail capability for document delivery

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Acid rain emissions Falsecolored map
of emissions over the eastern and midwestern
United States. Sulfur is the main component of
acid rain.
Acid rain damage Trees killed by acid
rain in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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• American Journey Online
• The African-American Experience
• The American Revolution
• The Asian-American Experience
• The Civil War
• The Constitution and the Supreme Court
• The Great Depression and the New Deal
• The Hispanic-American Experience
• Immigrant Experience
• Native-American Experience
• The Vietnam Era
• Westward Expansion
• Women in America
• More than 60,000 reference documents
• Over 10,000 photographs and illustrations
• More than 8 hours of audio and video clips
• Over 41,000 primary source documents - including
  diaries, letters, artwork, speeches, etc.

• 700 Full Text InfoTrac Periodicals
• American Decades
• DISCovering Authors
• DISCovering Biography
• DISCovering Science
• DISCovering U.S. History
• DISCovering World History
• SRC - Health Module Data
• UXL Biographies
• UXL Junior DISCovering Authors
• UXL Science
• UXL Junior Worldmark
• UXL Multicultural
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

• SRC Gold Content

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F U L L T E X T N E W S P A P E R C O N T E N
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• 100 Full Text Newspapers by July, 2000
• 180 Full Text by December, 2000
• Easy to use InfoTrac Web Interface
• Search by Section
• Includes Full Text of
• Austin Statesman
• Dallas Morning News
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram
• Houston Chronicle
• New York Times -90 day rolling file

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T E X A S A L M A N A C

• Complete Millennium Edition Online
• Includes all text and all images that appear in
  print version
• Browse almanac by chapter

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Custom Implementation Web Site
http//trials.galegroup.com/texas2000
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Custom Implementation Web Site
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Custom Implementation Web Site
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