Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Applied Science & Technology Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
Features full text articles, page images, abstracts, and indexing of in-depth scientific and technical data gathered from leading trade, professional, and industrial sources.
Applied Science and Technology Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Applied Science & Technology Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983
This database combines coverage from Wilson's Applied Science & Technology Retrospective and Business Periodicals Index Retrospective. Provides a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, company profiles, iconic executives and scientists, and much more.
Applied Science and Technology Retrospective: 1913-1983
This resource provides content from the acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Index. This is the perfect reference for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies (such as the effects of pesticides on the environment or the dawn of the global economy), finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.
Art Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Art Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929–1984
Contains 55 years of contemporary art journalism and history. This database presents the same indexing offered in Applied Science & Technology Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Art Museum Image Gallery
The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank.
Its in-depth images provide research for a wide range of users:
- Teachers can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in class lectures, assignments, academic presentations, and password-protected course websites. The images are rights-cleared for educational use.
- Students can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in papers and classroom assignments.
- Museums can provide patron access to the Art Museum Image Gallery from computer kiosks, and use images for public lectures or scholarly presentations.
Researchers, librarians, art lovers and collectors, and curators alike will all find the Art Museum Image Gallery a welcome addition to their electronic resources.
Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection
While the Art Museum Image Gallery is available strictly to non-profit institutions, Art Museum Image Gallery Special Collection delivers images cleared for educational and research use by for-profit and commercial institutions. This Special Collection features more than 62,000 images from the renowned collection of The Art Archive of The Picture Desk, Inc. This fine art and historical picture library covers art, architecture, cultural artifacts, and more, from 3,000 BC to the 20th Century.
Art Full Text
This database offers an international array of peer-selected publications, including coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Art Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Art Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Bibliographic Index Plus
This bibliography of bibliographies provides access to more than 450,000 bibliographies published in English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian, Slavic, and Romance languages. Includes full-text of nearly 136,000 bibliographies from some 1,700 journals across a broad range of disciplines.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated
This database contains in-depth, full text illustrated profiles and up-to-date bibliographies of newsmakers and prominent figures in a wide range of fields.
Biography Index: 1984 to Present
This database cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus other journals. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.
Biography Reference Bank
Wilson’s largest biography database covers over 470,000 people from antiquity to today. This combines the profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, the periodicals coverage of Biography Index, and full-text, illustrated articles from the complete range of Wilson databases.
Biography Index: Past and Present
Contains retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to when it was first published in 1946, combined with coverage right up to the present. This resource cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.
Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
Find information about people from antiquity to 1983 in a single, easy-to-use database. Research people in the headlines or throughout history; find information on notables across all disciplines and subject areas with this practical resource. Contains over 627,000 article and book citations.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
This database contains indexing and abstracts of the core literature of biology and agriculture, and includes links to images, charts and illustrations that are important for scientific research.
Book Review Digest Plus
This database indexes and provides full text and excerpts of 1,200,000 reviews of over 500,000 current English-language fiction and non-fiction books.
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982
Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and this new database makes it easy to search this vast record of information. Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books.
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982
A valuable research tool for students, educators, and researchers who need answers from the history of business and industry. This resource offers searchable indexing of the most important scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines. This retrospective is a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, marketing triumphs and failures, company profiles, iconic executives, and much more.
Business Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Wilson Business Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Business Full Text
This database contains articles, product reviews, corporate profiles and more from leading trade, professional, and industrial sources.
Business Periodicals Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Wilson Business Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Children's Core Collection
For collection development, readers’ advisory, and curriculum support. Children's Core Collection covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade.
Current Biography 1940 to Present
Contains the same content of Current Biography Illustrated but without the illustrations.
Current Biography Illustrated
This database reflects the entire contents of the printed monthly Current Biography since 1940, including articles, biographies, and illustrations.
Current Issues in Health
Created to meet the educational and research needs of your patrons — as well as vocational students preparing for careers in health care — Current Issues in Health focuses on a wide range of health topics with articles selected by H.W. Wilson editors to offer a thorough and balanced overview. From eating disorders to food safety, from alternative medicine to cloning, here's where consumers can turn for information to enrich their understanding of issues at the leading edge of health and medicine. This is a practical resource for public, school, and college libraries.
Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus
Building on the convenience and accessibility of the popular Reference Shelf Plus print series, Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus presents a carefully-selected articles from key publications in social, scientific, health, political, and global issues, brought together to make a well-rounded overview. This is an easy-to-use, accessible, "information hub" offering library users balanced examinations of current issues. The database now covers 90 topics, and more than 20 new topics will be added annually.
Education Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Education Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Education in Full Text
Contains full text articles, page images, abstracts, and indexing of publications in a broad range of educational specialties.
Education Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Education Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Education Index Retrospective
This new database provides more than half a century of cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks.
Essay and General Literature Index
Indexes 65,000 essays that are contained in 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Famous First Facts
Provides fast access to entries on thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history.
General Science Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in General Science Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
General Science Full Text
Contains full text articles, page images, abstracts, and indexing of scientific publications in a broad range of fields.
General Science Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in General Science Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Graphic Novels Core Collection Selection Guide
The Graphic Novels Core Collection Selection Guide helps librarians bring patrons age-appropriate works from this increasingly popular literary form and provide assistance with collection development, readers’ advisory and curriculum support. Strict standards are applied for rating materials by age appropriateness. Descriptive and evaluative annotations offer insight into both quality and content, and automatic links to cover art gives librarians a first-person “feel” for the work.
Humanities Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Humanities Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907–1984
Contains a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907.
Humanities Full Text
This database features full text articles, abstracts, and indexing of the most noted sources in the humanities and lesser-known but important specialized publications.
Humanities Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Humanities Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Humanities Index Retrospective
Indexes over 800,000 articles and book reviews.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
This database presents the same indexing offered in Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
Covers a wide range of legal specialties with full text articles, law reviews, and indexes to legal journals and monographs.
Index to Legal Periodicals
This database presents the same indexing offered in Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, but without links to full text articles. The same journals are covered.
Junior Authors and Illustrators
Since the first volume was published in 1934, the Junior Authors & Illustrators series has been an essential source of information about the creators of books for children and young people. Now, all eight volumes in this series are available in a single database, delivering fast digital access to in-depth profiles, photographs, and bibliographies of works by and about authors and illustrators.
Middle & Junior High Core Collection
For libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, this catalog provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, selection and purchasing, readers' advisory, and general reference. Here are thousands of entries for nonfiction works, fiction and collections for children and adolescents, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. The Catalog also includes entries for recommended electronic resources. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983
Nearly 80 years of citations document all the innovations, controversies, and people instrumental in the making of modern librarianship. Search hundreds of periodicals, plus books, book chapters and library school theses.
Library Literature & Information Science Index
Covers the latest trends in librarianship by indexing English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
Covers the latest trends in librarianship with full text articles, charts, graphs, and photos from English and foreign-language periodicals, state journals, conferences, and library school theses.
Nonbook Materials Core Collection
Nonbook Materials Core Collection highlights more than 2,300 electronic resources, videos, sound recordings, audiobooks, educational games, and periodicals recommended for various types of libraries. The database also presents an abundance of professional materials.
Valuable for collection development, readers' advisory and curriculum support, Nonbook Materials Core Collection allows searching (and cross-searching) for materials by a wide range of useful parameters, including media type, reading level, subject, title, publication year, author, publisher, keyword, and more.
Users can limit any search to the most highly recommended titles. Special limiters also allow you to retrieve just entries for fiction, nonfiction, or biography, and a "What's New" limiter lets you find only what's been added in the last week, month, year, or since the last time you checked.
Entries include descriptive and critical annotations that offer insight into both quality and content of resources, and cover art (if available) gives librarians a first-person "feel" for the work. Strict standards are applied to rating materials by age appropriateness. Review excerpts are featured and entries note any awards the work has won. Cataloging records are provided for all items. The database can link to the library's OPAC, for an instant check of holdings for any item cited.
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition
Contains all of the indexing, abstracting, and full text of these six Wilson databases:
- Education Full Text
- General Science Full Text
- Humanities Full Text
- Readers’ Guide Full Text
- Social Sciences Full Text
- Wilson Business Full Text
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition also has the complete indexing, abstracting, and full text from all of the journals in the following five databases to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not Wilson has the full text for that particular article.
- Applied Science and Technology Full Text
- Art Full Text
- Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
- Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
- Social Sciences Full Text
- Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
OmniFile Full Text, Select Edition
This database collection contains the same subject and periodical coverage as OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition, but without the abstracting and indexing of articles that are unavailable in full text.
Play Index
The online edition of this renowned resource will make finding information about plays easier than ever. Since important classic and historical plays (e.g. the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere’s works, Shakespeare’s dramas) are reprinted in collections and anthologies, you will find virtually any play being studied or performed in Play Index. This unique resource also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations. With this resource you can find citations to some 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present.
Public Library Core Collection: Fiction
This resource features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English. The best authors and their most widely read works in literary and popular fiction, old and new, are listed, including mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, Westerns, and romance. You will find more than 8,000 titles listed, with entries providing complete bibliographic data, price, descriptive annotations, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. Use the information for collection development and maintenance, readers' advisory, and general reference.
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction
For collection development, weeding your collection, readers' advisory, and general reference, Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction satisfies the needs of a broad readership. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available, plus information on electronic editions of works where available.
Readers’ Guide Abstracts
This database contains informative 50 to 150 word abstracts of articles from periodicals dating back to 1983.
Readers’ Guide Full Text, Mega Edition
This database features full text articles, abstracts, index, and page images of periodicals that creates a powerful current events research tool for students, educators, and library patrons.
Readers’ Guide Full Text, Select Edition
A 100% full text database of a wide selection of popular periodicals that also includes abstracts and indexing.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982
Contains more than 100 years of coverage from 375 leading U.S. magazines, with indexing back as far as 1890.
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature
This database is the online version of the printed Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
Science Full Text Select
A broad range of important science information in a single 100% full text
database. This new science offering includes all the full text content from Wilson’s acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text, plus additional
related full text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases including
Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
Senior High Core Collection
This selective list of books recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 is invaluable for collection development and maintenance, reader's advisory, and curriculum support in the high school library. More than 40,500 entries in the WilsonWeb online version offer an abundance of choices, including listings of review sources and other aids for librarians and school media specialists. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, and evaluative quotations from a review when available.
Short Story Index
A digital guide to over 76,000 short stories from more than 4,000 collections. It also contains the full text of 1,600 short stories.
Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
A unique new tool to help users find short stories from among over 150,000 published in the U.S., England and Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s. For the reader seeking works by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, the student researching the career of a literary figure, or other inquiry in literature, politics, sociology, ethnic studies, media studies, history and beyond, here's fast searching of over 150 years of literature.
Social Sciences Abstracts
This database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in Social Sciences Full Text, but without links to full text articles.
Social Sciences Full Text
Features full text articles, page images, abstracts, and indexing of the most important English-language journals covering the social sciences. Includes the latest concepts, trends, theories, and methods from both the applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Social Sciences Index
This database presents the same indexing offered in Social Sciences Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles.
Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907–1983
This database indexes some 1,000,000 articles, including book reviews. It offers convenient coverage of these indexes: International Index (1907-1965),
Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965–1974), Social Sciences Index (1974–1983).
World Authors 800 BC to Present
The biographies and bibliographies of over 10,000 of the world’s greatest authors are included in this full text database.
