Short Story Index

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A convenient digital guide to thousands of short stories!

Locate more than 96,000 stories, including the full text of over 4,000 stories—with the pinpoint accuracy of electronic searching! For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource.

Indexes short stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, plus stories that appear in periodicals!
Bonus for WilsonWeb subscribers: full text of more than 4,000 short stories and growing with daily updates!
Searching by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique, source, or any combination—makes finding the story you want a sure thing.
Retrospective coverage back to 1984.
Subject access includes theme, locale, narrative technique or device (such as surprise endings, dialect stories, parodies, story-within-a-story) and genre.
Includes stories from over 150 of the periodicals indexed by Readers’ Guide and Humanities Index.
Database grows by 4,000 records each year.
Entries feature links to other works by the author and other stories in the source collection.
Library holdings indicator, linked to your OPAC, lets users know if they'll find cited publications on your shelves.
Up-to-date subject headings keep pace with contemporary topics of interest.
Wilson quality indexing—done by professionals—guarantees user satisfaction with search results.
Updated daily on WilsonWeb (quarterly on WilsonDisc). Also available in print.

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When you search Short Story Index on WilsonWeb, you get seamless links to full text articles on any of your library’s reference databases that are OpenURL compliant—at no additional charge.

Just click a special WilsonLink icon for automatic links to your other databases—no matter what the vendor. You don’t need additional hardware—WilsonWeb integrates your electronic collection with a supplemental search of all OpenURL compliant resources. In addition, WilsonLink provides extended services including an Internet search options.