WilsonWeb Full Text Coverage Tops 2,000 Journals
Quality Remains Key, as Expansion Program Keeps Number of Full Text Titles Growing

New York, New York, May 6th, 2005
More than 2,000 select periodicals—core specialty journals and magazines—are now available via WilsonWeb's full text databases, H.W. Wilson today announced. The total includes electronic journals and acclaimed open-access journals published online.

This expansion is part of a carefully controlled Wilson program to give researchers greater access to full text while ensuring that this content is research-worthy and of the highest quality. "We'll leave casual research to the web and other 'everybody in the pool' search engines," says WilsonWeb product manager Bernie Seiler. "Wilson scrupulously vets the journals that make their way into our databases, so users can be confident that everything they find has come through layers of authoritative review and editorial scrutiny."

A Depth of Information from Quality Sources, Ensured by Editorial Policy

Coverage decisions for WilsonWeb periodical databases are guided by editors who are experts in the specialties covered—most have advanced university degrees, and several have PhDs in their field. There are over 150 MLS librarians on the Wilson staff, and all of the company's indexers are subject specialists. In addition, many of the Wilson databases enjoy guidance on coverage decisions from The American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association's Committee on Wilson Indexes.

More than 7,500 journals in all are covered by WilsonWeb databases, renowned primarily for precise and
in-depth article indexing and abstracting. WilsonWeb full text databases expedite research by providing articles directly onscreen, saving users time they might spend tracking down articles in print. Users can also retrieve important graphical content—charts, graphs, diagrams, illustrations, and more—in PDF page images of the articles.

Popular WilsonWeb full text databases include Science Full Text Select, Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Art Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and others. New specialty databases include Book Review Digest Plus, with full text of more than 100,000 book reviews (and indexing of more than a million), and Bibliographic Index Plus, with nearly 100,000 full text bibliographies (plus indexing of more than 350,000).

Peer-reviewed publications are well-represented among WilsonWeb full text periodicals, comprising more than 700 titles. More than 2,300 peer-reviewed sources in total are covered by H.W. Wilson databases. Behind all coverage decisions is the goal of including all the core journals most relevant to a given area of research.

"Our goal is to deliver the most relevant, most reliable, complete, and inclusive information generated in each field we cover," says Bernie Seiler. "This means we're always looking to add key specialty publications to our full text roster." Additions will continue. For more on the H.W. Wilson periodicals databases, visit www.hwwilson.com.