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Test drive InfoTrac College Edition - the online library.

Test drive WebTutor on Blackboard, eCollege, and Web CT online study and course management tools.

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

InfoTrac College Edition
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 almost 4000 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.

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

WebTutor on Blackboard, eCollege, and WebCT
Wadsworth offers three versions of this online study, communication, and course management tool:

• WebTutor: With WebTutor's text-specific, pre-formatted content and total flexibility, you can easily create and manage your own personal Web site! WebTutor's course management tool gives you the ability to provide virtual office hours, post syllabi, set up threaded discussions, track student progress with the quizzing material, and much more. For students, WebTutor offers real-time access to a full array of study tools, including chapter outlines, summaries, learning objectives, glossary flashcards (with audio), practice quizzes & Web links, and InfoTrac® College Edition exercises. WebTutor also provides robust communication tools, such as a course calendar, asynchronous discussion, real time chat, a whiteboard, and an integrated e-mail system.
  
  
• WebTutor Advantage: WebTutor Advantage offers all the features of WebTutor along with further enhancements, including animations, videos, and Microsoft® PowerPoint® images, which increase interactivity and bring topics to life.
  
  
• WebTutor Advantage Plus--The Complete Solution: This complete solution offers an integrated electronic version of the complete textbook as well as additional features that may include video clips, animations, other interactive media and more!

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