Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega Edition boasts a wealth of content and features:

• Searchable full text of articles from some 215 journals as far back as 1994 (see our Journal Directory for a searchable list of journals covered).

• PDF page images of full-text articles give users access to illustrations, photographs, and other graphical content from the original article.

• Expert, precision indexing of over 400 periodicals as far back as 1983 enables users to find the exact article they want.

• In-depth, professionally written, informative abstracts of 50 to 150 words each ensure that users can decide quickly if a cited article is relevant to them.

• The full text of Wilson Library Bulletin, including PDF page images.

• Up-to-date subject headings keep pace with the latest topics in current events, business, science, arts and entertainment, health and medicine, sports and fitness, and more.

• Unique Wilson name and subject authority files guarantee that names and subject headings are uniform wherever they appear.

• Daily updates keep content current.

Every aspect of modern life is covered in this comprehensive database—from antiques and art to business and computing, food and fitness, and politics and popular culture—making it ideal for libraries that need to serve a wide range of interests and research needs with a single resource.

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega Edition makes it easy to locate the answers to questions like these:

• Where’s a good place to get materials for crafting with my students?

• What mutual funds should I invest in?

• I’m writing a paper on the current health-care debate. How can I find both sides of the story?

• I read a New Yorker article a few years ago on President Obama and his wife Michelle, but I can’t remember what issue it was; how can I find it?

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega Edition’s unparalleled content is made highly accessible thanks to WilsonWeb functionality:

• Precision searching makes research in the popular press faster and easier than ever.
  Subject-specific thesaurus ensures that users can find every variation of their search terms.

• ReadSpeaker (Text-to-Speech) - convert full-text articles into audio files, for immediate listening or downloading to iPods and other portable devices

• Language Translations

• “My WilsonWeb” customization

• Content Discovery Keys—highlighting recommended subjects within search results encourages further exploration

• WilsonLink SFX technology links citations with full text from any of your OpenURL compatible databases, at no additional charge!

• Library holdings indicator, linked to your OPAC, lets users know if they’ll find cited materials on your shelves.

• Built-in links to websites cited by articles help users to broaden their research while maintaining focus on the original article.

Readers’ Guide Expands Coverage with Full Text & Indexing for 30 Additional Magazines

Readers’ Guide Full Text offers full text plus indexing and abstracts for an additional 30 popular magazines, beginning with the first 2005 issues. This expansion will add some 3,000 additional records per year. The select additions were each highly recommended for periodicals collections by Magazines for Libraries and other review media, and will also be covered by Readers’ Guide Abstracts and Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (including the print edition).

• Alternatives Journal

• Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources & Rural America

• Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel: Vacations for Real People

• Best Life

• Common Ground: Archaeology & Ethnography in the Public Interest

• The Crisis

• D (Dallas)

• Economic Indicators (Washington)

• Econsouth

• Electronic Gaming Monthly

• Hemisphere

• Hispanic

• Idaho Magazine

• Islamic Horizons

• Ledger (Boston)

• Legal Affairs

• Mountain Bike

• Nebraska Life

• Oceanus

• Organic Style

• P C Magazine: The Independent Guide to Personal Computing & the Internet

• Phi Kappa Phi Forum

• Prologue

• Science & Technology Review

• Science @ Berkeley Lab

• South Dakota Magazine

• Tricycle

• Vegetarian Journal

• Virginia Living

• Zion’s Herald