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With Book Review Digest Plus on WilsonWeb,
H.W. Wilson brings you a classic library reference work,
now expanded with full text and greater coverage.
Book Review Digest Plus is an essential library tool that
brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics and from a variety of sources. Unlike reviews
on book-sale sites and the open Internet, which are often either thinly disguised marketing materials
or the opinions of readers and customers, many of the reviews are serious, academic works.
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This invaluable resource for literary and biographical research is essential for readers’ advisory and collection development. It provides:
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At least a citation to every book review that appears in any of the 5,000+ journals indexed by H. W. Wilson
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Over two million reviews, including citations, generous excerpts from book reviews, over 225,000 full-text reviews, and over 118,000 new reviews added each year
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“Master” records for each book, with links to reviews from various sources
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Strong coverage of many subject areas, including both fiction and non-fiction, the humanities and social sciences, foreign language reviews, and narrow and specialized subjects
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Retrospective coverage as far back as 1983
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Positive and negative evaluations
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Coverage of books for children with a suggested grade range
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Quality H. W. Wilson indexing
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Daily updates
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Book Review Digest Plus is essential for any serious research project
to review
the existing literature, including reviews of all relevant books and discussions of those books
in review articles.
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Advantages of Book Review
Digest Plus on WilsonWeb:
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Easy-to-use interface and seamless links built right into the database allow patrons and staff to locate relevant materials quickly
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Library holdings indicator, linking to your OPAC, lets users know if they’ll find cited periodicals in your library
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Language Translations, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech and My WilsonWeb customization increase patron satisfaction
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Now
Featuring WilsonLink SFX-Powered Technology
When you search
Book Review Digest Plus on WilsonWeb, you get
seamless links to full text articles on any of your library’s
reference databases that are open-URL 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 open-URL compliant resources. In
addition, WilsonLink provides extended services
including an Internet search and document
delivery options.
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Book Review Digest
Plus presents book reviews
from the following Wilson databases:
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Applied Science
& Technology Full Text
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Art Full Text
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Biological &
Agricultural Index Plus
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Education Full Text
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General Science Full
Text
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Humanities Full Text
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Index to Legal
Periodicals & Books
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Library Literature
& Information Science Full Text
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Readers' Guide Full
Text
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Social Sciences Full
Text
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Wilson Business Full
Text
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Book Review Digest
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Review excerpts and book summaries for
more than 8,000 current English-language works each year.
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Encompasses more than 112,000 books to
date.
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Full bibliographic information for every
book covered.
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Entries gleaned from ongoing coverage of
109 periodicals.
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