Expansion for Abridged Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Ten Popular Magazines Added to Coverage, Reflecting Titles in Today's Periodical Collections

New York, New York, October 25, 2005
In an timely update to coverage, H.W. Wilson has expanded the number of magazines indexed by Abridged Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, adding 10 acclaimed newsstand publications. Abridged Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature indexes a select subset of the titles covered by Wilson's popular Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, with a focus on the needs of the school library and smaller public libraries. The expansion brings the number of periodicals covered by Abridged Readers' Guide to 77. A list of the added publications appears below.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is H.W. Wilson's "flagship" reference, in publication since 1901. A standard resource in libraries nationwide, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature features cover-to-cover indexing of popular newsstand publications--titles that are likely to appear in school and public library collections. By making periodicals content easily searchable, Readers' Guide has been a boon to students and other researchers for generations.

The Readers' Guide family of references now also includes internet databases: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Readers' Guide Full Text, Mega and Select Editions. Readers' Guide Full Text databases offer the full text of some 200 publications.

New Titles Indexed by Abridged Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature:

Audubon
Current Health 2
Entertainment Weekly
Film Comment
Hispanic
Maclean's
The Nation
Scholastic Choices
USA Today (Magazine)
Vital Speeches Of The Day

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