InfoTrac College Edition

Cutting edge research at your students’ fingertips. . . An entire online library for the cost of one book!

Four months of FREE access to the new and improved InfoTrac® College Edition… free with any Wadsworth text

Give your students anytime, anywhere access to reliable resources with InfoTrac College Edition, the online library! This fully searchable database offers 20 years’ worth of full-text articles from nearly 5000 diverse sources, such as academic journals, newsletters, and up-to-the-minute periodicals including Time, Newsweek, Science, Forbes, and USA Today. This incredible depth and breadth of material—available 24 hours a day from any computer with Internet access—makes conducting research so easy, your students will want to use it to enhance their work in every course! And, incorporating InfoTrac College Edition is easy as well—references to this virtual library are built into many of our texts in margins, exercises, and sidebars. In addition, special guides to InfoTrac College Edition are available on our Web sites and as handy booklets that can be packaged with our texts. After your demo, be sure to view the complete journal list and sign up for your trial passcode.

Register with your PINCODE or your User Name and Password for access to InfoTrac College Edition at:
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com

Review the list of Journals in InfoTrac College Edition at:
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/journals.html

Test drive InfoTrac College Edition today at:
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/Demo/page1.html

While visiting InfoTrac College Edition online, be sure to visit the Instructor Resource Center, where you'll find information on receiving an Instructor 30-day trial, tips for using InfoTrac College Edition in the classroom, and more.

New to InfoTrac College Edition! Students now have instant access ot InfoWrite: a handy resource that covers paper writing, critical thinking, and more. InfoWrite covers: "Research and the Research Paper," "Grammar," "The Writing Process," Special Kinds of Writing," "Modes of Exposition," and "Critical Thinking."

Review InfoWrite at
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/infowrite/index.html

Also new to InfoTrac College Edition-the Student Resource Center. Students can drop into the Student Resource Center to find tips on "Getting Started in College"and "Developing College Survival Skills." They can also link to additional resources (including InfoWrite) and access the Newbury House Dictionary, which offers over 40,000 entries.

Review the Student Resource Center at:
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/students.html

10 reasons to use InfoTrac® College Edition

InfoTrac® College Edition is . . .

1. POWERFUL, RELIABLE, ACADEMICALLY-BASED . . This online database is your students’ gateway to an online database of full-length articles (not abstracts) from more than 3900 top academic journals and popular sources (such as Time and Newsweek magazines). Content is rich, diverse, cross-disciplinary, and above all, reliable.

2. ADVERTISING-FREE . . . When you send your students to InfoTrac College Edition, you are sending them to an area of the Web that is free from hype, advertising, or questionable information. Students won’t get distracted by spinning logos and flashing banners as they find top quality sources to enhance their learning.

3. AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK . . . InfoTrac College Edition allows you to extend your course online to an anywhere, anytime environment. Students can tap into a continually changing, dynamic database that is updated daily.

4. A TIME SAVER . . . A simple key word search yields relevant articles drawn from across the entire interdisciplinary database of thousands of articles. Ideas and content from the complete set of journals, magazines, and newspapers are indexed in the database, making searches incredibly quick, easy, and efficient.

5. FULL-TEXT. . . Results of an InfoTrac College Edition search are the full text of articles—not just abstracts—and students can print them out to study, analyze, or take to class.

6. CONVENIENT, EASY-TO-USE, AND ADAPTABLE . . . Students can begin using InfoTrac College Edition instantly right from their desktops. Because the sources range from general interest (like Newsweek and Smithsonian) to specialized academic journals in a wide variety of disciplines, students can use InfoTrac College Edition in many courses in a single term, as well as a daily source of news and information.

7. A WAY TO REPLACE EXPENSIVE READERS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS. . . Work with your Wadsworth/Thomson Learning representative to create your own custom online reader or to replace expensive classroom or student subscriptions to newspapers or magazines.

8. BACKED BY TECHNICAL—AND TEACHING—SUPPORT. . . Technical support is provided to users via e-mail directly from Information Access Company. In addition, tips on using this powerful resource are included in many Wadsworth Instructor’s Manuals and an all-purpose guide to using InfoTrac College Edition in the classroom is under development.

9. BACKED BY TECHNICAL—AND TEACHING—SUPPORT. . . Technical support is provided to users via e-mail directly from Information Access Company. In addition, tips on using this powerful resource are included in many Wadsworth Instructor’s Manuals and an all-purpose guide to using InfoTrac College Edition in the classroom is under development.

10. FREE . . . When you adopt any new Wadsworth text, you and your students can receive 4-month’s FREE access to InfoTrac College Edition.