InfoTrac vs. Galenet

Historically, Thomson Gale's periodical databases (e.g., InfoTrac Student, General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile) were built on a platform called InfoTrac, while their reference resource centers (Student Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Literature Resource Center) were built on a different platform named Galenet.

In the past, it was necessary to distinguish between InfoTrac and Galenet databases since it changed what URL you provided in your citation, as shown in this out-of-date help screen:

http://support.gale.com/gale/article.html?article=1467

However, the citation document above was written prior to Thomson Gale's standardization effort, which included making all of their databases accessible via the InfoTrac platform. For your citations now, you may use http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ as the base URL for both InfoTrac and Galenet products.

Note: Thank you to the product manager and technical solutions consultant at Thomson Gale who helped us with this!