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Full Text, Abstracts, Index, Page Images,
& More!
Dramatically expand your popular periodical resources with full
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Searchable full text of articles from
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Readers'
Guide Retrospective: 1890 - 1982
Now with this invaluable new resource, your patrons can have
searchable access to more than 100 years of coverage from 375
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Retrospective: 1890-1982!
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Readers’ Guide Full Text, Select Edition
For libraries that want a 100%
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most-wanted popular periodicals.
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Readers’ Guide Abstracts
Informative abstracts of 50 to 150 words provided in this
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to full text in any of your OpenURL compatible databases.
What's more, on WilsonWeb citations feature links to websites
mentioned in the articles for further information.
"The abstracts are excellent, allowing students to determine
if the article is what they want while also giving them enough
information to help them modify or further develop their
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Searcher
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Readers’ Guide to
Periodical Literature®
In this database, you
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Guide to Periodical Literature in the convenient online form
patrons prefer. On WilsonWeb, take advantage of links, remote
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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).
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Alternatives Journal
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Amber
Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural
Resources & Rural America
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Arthur
Frommer's Budget Travel: Vacations for Real People
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Best
Life
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Common
Ground: Archaeology & Ethnography in the Public
Interest
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The
Crisis
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D
(Dallas)
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Economic Indicators (Washington)
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Econsouth
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Electronic Gaming Monthly
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Hemisphere
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Hispanic
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Idaho
Magazine
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Islamic Horizons
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Ledger
(Boston)
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Legal
Affairs
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Mountain Bike
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Nebraska Life
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Oceanus
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Organic Style
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P C
Magazine: The Independent Guide to Personal Computing
& the Internet
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Phi
Kappa Phi Forum
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Prologue
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Science & Technology Review
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Science @ Berkeley Lab
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South
Dakota Magazine
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Tricycle
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Vegetarian Journal
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Virginia Living
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Zion’s
Herald
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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.
(More
details)
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