Other MajorDatabase Utilities: HW Wilson

Scope

• The company is most famous for its print indexes to magazines, specifically the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.
• HW Wilson is also one of the oldest of database publishers and database utilities.
• The company produces about 30 databases which it markets directly through its own service as well as through other vendors.
• Like its major competitors (Gale/Infotrac, Ebsco, Proquest), Wilson packages and repackages subsets of its contents in many ways in order to reach all potential markets.
  • Indexes, abstract databases, full-text databases.
  • Subsets for school, public, academic and special library markets.
  • The company also makes many of the databases available for licensing in CD-ROM (WilsonDisc) format.
• URL: http://www.hwwilson.com

Databases

• Databases Available (Wilson's list)
  • http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/d_avail.htm

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