WilsonWeb: An Overview

Presented by M. Leedy

The H.W. Wilson Company&

WilsonWeb

• 79 Databases created by Wilson• Located in Bronx, NY and Dublin, Ireland• WilsonWeb is a Search Retrieval System• OpenURL compliant

– Full text may be able to be found—for a Wilson record that happens to not be full text—in a non-Wilson, openURL compliant database.

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Search Results

Advanced Search

Search Results

Search Results

Search Results (from the back arrow): In order to include one or more of the highlighted subjects within the current search, click on each one singly, running three separate

searches. Then click on Search History.

Search History

Search Results

Thesaurus

Thesaurus Results

Thesaurus: Get Marked

Thesaurus (from the back arrow)

Thesaurus Results

Marked Thesaurus Results: It seems that separate thesaurus searches are unable to be accumulated.

Three different approaches were tried.

Thesaurus (from the back arrow)

Search Results ORed Together

Basic Search

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WilsonWeb vs. EBSCOhost

References

• H.W. Wilson Company, the. (2008). H.W. Wilson. Retrieved September 26, 2008, fromhttp://www.hwwilson.com

• H.W. Wilson Company, the. (2002-2008). WilsonWeb. Retrieved September 26, 2008, from http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/advancedsearch/advanced_search.jhtml;hwwilsonid=GZKLL31KK5MLPQA3DILCFGGADUNGIIV0?prod=LIBFT#formTop