InfoTrac
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Infotrac is a widely-used full-text database produced by Thomson Gale. It features a wide variety of content from academic journals and general magazines, with a target audience of students using academic, public, public and school libraries. The best-known databases in the InfoTrac line are Academic OneFile, a collection of more than 10,000 peer-reviewed journals, and General OneFile, a collection of more than 11,000 general interest magazines.
It is a large proprietary system run by Thomson Learning for accessing an online database of journal articles. According to Thomson's InfoTrac web site, the database has over 20 million articles of 6,000 journals. The database appears to be widely used by college students. It looks as though access to Infotrac is often provided as a benefit of buying certain textbooks, possibly free with the purchase of a given textbook. Thomson's web site does not make it clear whether there are other ways for the public to gain access to the database.
InfoTrac was relaunched on 2005 on a new technology platform named Thomson Gale PowerSearch, which was named "most improved product" at the 2005 Charleston Conference. InfoTrac has also place ninth in the Library journal's Top 50 library brands of the millennium.
