General Onefile is Gale's single electronic resource providing instant access to an unprecedented number of periodicals. Users rely on General OneFile for access to periodical and news content as well as indexing from a variety of general and specialized journals – from the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor to refereed academic journals.

General OneFile includes:

• More than 6,300 full-text titles (more than 11,000 titles in all)
• Full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers
• Over 400 newspaper services covering worldwide current events

All of this superior information is delivered utilizing the powerful benefits of InfoTrac®:

• Integrated backfile coverage from 1980 to the present
• Links to holdings – providing an integrated solution for document retrieval
• InfoTrac InfoMarks, allowing users to save, reuse and share search results
• MARC 856 – direct access from your OPAC to InfoTrac periodicals using our patented InfoMark technology
• The best statistical reporting package on the market – fully customizable for individual library statistics or consortia-level reporting
• More images than ever before, including PDFs and inline graphics
• Audio: Patrons can now listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available in General Onefile
• 8 Languages: Every article in General Onefile can now be translated into eight different languages, making General Onefile a valuable resource in every community demographic

By combining unprecedented content and customizable, easy-to-use search functionality, General OneFile offers you the most muscle of any periodical database, allowing you to make your library the strongest on the block.

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