This premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration — from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, Expanded Academic ASAP delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher — all in one seamless search. Available on the groundbreaking PowerSearch® platform, your library gains 24-hour, remote access to the right academic sources through your preferred interface with the right technical configuration for your needs.
The scope and depth of coverage in Expanded Academic ASAP will satisfy the broad spectrum of students, faculty and graduate researchers who depend on your library for answers every day. Balanced coverage is available through more than 4,200 indexed and more than 2,500 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 2,800 journals are refereed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included with your subscription.
And now, through a unique partnership between Gale and IngentaConnect, InfoTrac Web provides seamless access to electronic journals in a familiar, easy-to-use interface. The integrated collection allows searching and access to articles from more than 6,000 scholarly journals, based on the institution's subscriptions. Access to IngentaConnect content is free of charge to customers of Expanded Academic ASAP.
"Who needs it? With Expanded Academic ASAP, Gale provides access to wide-ranging content ideally suited for academic institutions--and some public libraries--that desire a decent, no-nonsense database to meet the varied needs of their user populations. Material is up-to-date, searching and navigation work reasonably well, and librarians can further tweak the systems by customizing features and options of the search interface. InfoTrac Web offers real-time linking to an instition's web catalog through a Link-to-Holdings feature, and linking to related electronic services via an OpenURL server. This positions Expanded Academic ASAP near the top of the list for service."Library Journal (July 2003)