The Most Commonly Used Databases: The Winner is Gale Group's InfoTrac Databases

Scope

• The most successful journal/magazine databases, in terms of penetration of the broad public/academic/school/special library market, are the Infotrac databases marketed (in various configurations) by Gale Group to all sorts of libraries.
• The Infotrac databases are the most successful ones in the academic, public, and, even, special libraries market because:
  • These databases have mostly been developed since the early 1980s..
  • Gale Group owns so many databases and combines and recombines information in them to make new databases.
  • Information Access (now integrated into Gale Group, a subsidiary of the publishing giant Thompson PLC) has had the most successful marketing of all of the database producers. For example, the databases are available through DIALOG and other database utilities as well as directly to the libraries, companies, and the public.
  • Gale Group has the advantage of economies of scale.
  • It also has the backing of the parent firm, Thompson Corp, which is a $15 billion company.

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