Academic OneFile

Finding Information

All of the things you’ve come to love about InfoTrac — such as our strong vocabulary and unparalleled content — remain the same in Academic OneFile. And our powerful search engine, Gale PowerSearch, continues to simplify navigation with a “breadcrumb trail” that shows the path a search has taken. In addition, Academic OneFile offers special benefits to academic users that make scholarly research easier than before.

Search

Subject Guide Search
Type the subject word(s) in the search field and click on Search. You may narrow your search to full-text articles, peer-reviewed publications, documents with images, publication date or publication title. The screen in the column below lists subjects containing your search term. Click on the hyperlinked term to see a list of results, or you may narrow your search by subdivision. Click on related subjects to expand your search.

Although this search is easy to use for most common search topics, you may need another search option for topics that are referenced infrequently. These search options will be explained later. By clicking on the subject term, you will be taken to the results list. Scan the list of titles to locate one to fit your research needs. You may also view the reference, news and multimedia results by following the tabs at the top of the search results list. You may view the full text of your results immediately or mark for future reference.

Basic Search
Use Basic Search to define your own search strategy. Results are presented in reverse chronological order. Choose Basic Search from the navigation bar. For a broader or more limited search, you may use and, or and not connectors, or limit the results to documents with full-text, peer-reviewed publications, documents with images, publication date or publication title. You may select one or more articles for viewing from the results list in full-text.

Advanced Search
Use Advanced Search to:

• Find a specific article when you already know the title, publication name or author
• Locate all articles by a specific author or journalist
• Retrieve all articles from a certain journal
• Combine your terms with Boolean operators and index fields

Enter the term(s) and an index field. Boolean operators “and” “or” and “not” let you connect up to three terms or you may limit your search further by selecting the full-text limit and/or by specifying a publication date. Click on the hyperlinked text to read the full-text of the article, or on one of the options below the citation to view the title as a PDF.

Publication Search
Enter the publication title you are searching for to locate a title.

Tools
On the home page and throughout subsequent screens, you will find additional tools to assist you. They include:

• InfoMarks
• Print
• E-mail
• Download
• Marked Items
• Previous Searches
• Dictionary
• Title List
• Help

Results

A successful search returns a list of citations for matching articles. Citations are brief references to articles, displayed either from newest to oldest or, for relevance searches, starting with the most relevant.

A summary of the search that produced the citation list is displayed near the top of the page. Just below is an indication of which citations are on the current page out of the total number. The navigation icons on either side (repeated at the bottom of each page) let you go forward or backward one page at a time or jump to the first or last page.