Texas Newspaper:Dallas Morning News, AUSTIN St, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Victoria Advocate, Austin American – Statesman TX

Today’s Objectives  Overview of options  Why are periodicals important  Titles and examples  Questions  Demo

 Infotrac Student has almost 700 full text periodicals and some reference content (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Science)  Student Resource Center includes both Reference and Periodical content  Cross curricular content – covers history, literature, geography, science, health, biography and current events. InfoTrac Student and Student Resource Center

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Why Are Periodicals Important?  Periodicals provide the most current fact checked editorially reviewed information  Periodicals bridge the gap between the reference book and the internet  Best of both worlds  Fact checked reliability of a reference book  Contemporary relevance of blogs and other internet sources which are inherently unreliable  They supplement the encyclopedia content  I.e. A biography on Anna Nicole Smith written in 2006 in a reference book will give accurate biographical information; however, will show her as still being alive. The periodical content brings the information up to date.

Full Text – the key to our competitive edge  Terms to know  Active Full Text: We currently provide the articles from the periodical in full text through the current date  Full Text: We currently provide full text of the article up to a specified end date. (I.e. The Backfile)  Embargo: We can only publish full text of the magazine after a date specified by the publisher.

What’s in it for your territory Local Newspaper Coverage Active Full Text Texas Newspapers: Austin Statesman (Austin TX) SRC Dallas Morning News (Dallas TX) SRC Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth TX) Full text in SRC for 2000 Victoria Advocate (Victoria TX) IT Student and SRC Active Full text Florida Newspapers: Active Full text Florida Newspapers: Miami Herald (Miami FL) IT Student and SRC Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach FL) SRC Orlando Sentinal (Orlando FL) IT Student and SRC South Florida Sun – Sentinal (Fort Lauderdale FL) IT Student and SRC Tallahasee Democrat (Tallahassee FL) IT Student and SRC

What content?

The magazines

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