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Review
from: Choice, October 2003
Review from: NetConnect/Library Journal, Summer 2003
Review
from: Choice, October 2003
Offering the ability to search
full-text journal articles back to 1994 with indexing back to 1983, the
Mega Edition of Readers' Guide retains some features of the printed
edition, including descriptive abstracts and up-to-date subject headings.
It adds, however, some invaluable features, including images and graphical
content, links to Web sites cited, name and subject authority files, and
library holdings indicators linked to local library OPACs. Search
functions include basic, advanced, natural language, and Boolean. The
browse search function is most valuable, enabling users to conduct either
broad or narrow searches and limit them to document type. Full text is
indicated, as are other file characteristics, e.g., gender, person, place
of origin, profession or activity, race, year of birth.
Deriving from the same source—Wilson's
machine-readable Readers' Guide files—Retrospective provides the ability
to search nearly a century’s articles from more than 375 major magazines
and journals back to 1890. It resembles the Mega Edition closely, making
available the same search and browse functions and the same linkage to
local OPACs. Any index to periodicals that extends back into the 19th
century, even for so brief period, deserves attention. Both sites are
valuable sources for public, academic, and special libraries.
Summing Up: Both—highly
recommended. All collections.
Review from:
NetConnect/Library Journal, Summer 2003
A staple for public libraries,
school media centers, and academic libraries when students are researching
current events, this classic general-purpose research tool offers Wilson’s
high-quality professional indexing for 300 magazines and journals from
1983. Full-text access to some titles begins in 1994. A library holdings
feature adds value, as does the SFX-powered WebLink capability, which
permits access to full-text resources from other OpenURL-compliant
databases. The stripped-down Select Edition includes only those titles
available in full text.
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