POWERFUL
ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS FOR NEWLY
REDESIGNED WILSONWEB
Fast
Improvements Reflect Commitment to
Aggressive Customer-Driven
Development
New York, New York, March 29th,
2003
H.W. Wilson today announced powerful
additional enhancements to its newly redesigned WilsonWeb reference database
service, for even more versatile searching. The new enhancements reflect
customer and reviewer feedback since the redesigned WilsonWeb was released to
subscribers in January 2003. They include:
New All-Smart Search Query in
Advanced Search
WilsonWeb’s unique All-Smart
Search query is a powerful, rules-based search that takes full advantage of
Wilson's rich indexing metadata. The All-Smart Search assigns a relevancy
ranking to each record depending on which field in the citation it finds the
search term or phrase.
The system first looks for the
term(s) or phrase as a bound phrase at the Subject level, in the Thesaurus,
and in the Title fields, before going on to other parts of the record,
including full text. Records with the search term as a subject heading
always appear at the top of the results. Records with terms found only in
the text of the article appear further down in results.
All-Smart Search returns only
records that feature all the terms searched. Previously, searches retrieved
records with any of the terms searched, resulting in a higher number
of less relevant records.
New Keyword search capability in
Advanced Search
The Keyword search looks for the
search term only in records’ bibliographic citation fields, including
abstracts. The full text of articles is not searched, avoiding irrelevant
hits. Your library’s administrator can choose between the "All—Smart
Search" query and the Keyword query as the default search setting, or
assign defaults by user group.
The Keyword Search returns only
records that feature all the terms searched, ranked for relevance by which
bibliographic fields feature the search term.
"Bound Phrase"
searching in Basic Search simplified
Enclose the search phrase in
quotation marks to retrieve only hits for that precise phrase, for example
"Greek tragedy." This feature is available in both the Natural
Language & Boolean search modes. Note that the new WilsonWeb
automatically does a bound phrase search (with or without quotation marks)
when All—Smart Search is selected.
AND, OR, NOT, and IN in Boolean
searches
Users are now able to choose
between Natural Language and Boolean Search through radio buttons on the
Basic Search Screen. Library administrators can change the default setting
from Natural Language to Boolean Search. In the Boolean search, WilsonWeb
automatically recognizes Boolean operators—no brackets or special
characters necessary.
Interface enhancements
