WilsonWeb Adds Expanded BRD

H.W. Wilson has increased the coverage on its recently revamped WilsonWeb with the addition of an expanded version of Book Review Digest, which now includes more than one million reviews. According to Wilson, the Book Review Digest Plus database gleans reviews from "thousands of periodicals beyond the former base of just 109…. [U]sers can now retrieve full-text reviews in addition to excerpts and citations, and—besides general fiction and nonfiction—reference works, books for children, and textbooks are covered."

Book Review Digest Plus lets users search reviews by keyword, book or article title, author, and source. In addition to reviews listed in Book Review Digest, the database draws content from other WilsonWeb periodicals databases, including Readers' Guide Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Education Full Text, Art Full Text, General Science Full Text, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Book Review Digest Plus is updated daily; retrospective coverage dates back to 1983.

Wilson is also marketing Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, which the company says offers users access to over one million full-text articles from more than 300 journals—many peer-reviewed—plus full-text articles on WilsonWeb. Full-text citations also link to PDF page images including graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations. Resources date back as far as 1983, and new content is added daily. According to Wilson, "full-text entries reflect the cover-to-cover content of over 20 percent of the sources as far back as 1997." Also, using WilsonLink SFX database linking software, which is built into the new WilsonWeb search engine, users can launch a supplemental search of all the host library's open URL–compliant resources for the full text of any article cited in the database. [For a review of WilsonWeb, see Database&Disc Reviews, p. 173. in the print issue]