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(Note from the Washington State Library: In order to participate in the Fall 2000 Washington State Databases Trial, each vendor was asked to address questions the Statewide Database Licensing Committee felt were most critical in order for library staff to evaluate products and vendors. Please contact the vendor's representative, listed below, for additional information on this product.)
1. Describe the database product(s). Include information on subject scope, percentage of full-text, dates of coverage, target audience (including age ranges), and how often the contents are updated.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text (with Page Image)
TARGET AUDIENCE: academic, special, large public.
DESCRIPTION: Applied Science & Technology Abstracts Full Text is the electronic version of Applied Science & Technology Index with abstracts and full text. # of Journals 485 (represents active, ceased, and dropped journals titles as of 11-10-1999) # of Full Text 98 (represents active, ceased, and dropped journals titles as of 11-10--1999) 96 with Page Image. Excludes American Science & Science American (text only).
Over 75,000 bibliographic records added per year
START DATES: Full text: January 1997 Abstracts: March 1993 Indexing: October 1983
BENEFITS: Provides timely, comprehensive information to students and researchers from the most important journals in the applied sciences and engineering. * Covers all areas of engineering, science, and technology * Ideal for undergraduate, graduate, and professional research. * Cover-to-cover indexing of every publication included.
UPDATES: Updates - 4x/week
Education Full Text
TARGET AUDIENCE: academic libraries, school districts, educational agencies, public libraries.
DESCRIPTION: Education Abstracts Full Text is the electronic version of Education Index with abstracts and full text added. # of journals: 477 (represents active, ceased, and dropped journals titles as of 11-16-99) # of full text: 181 (represents active, ceased, and dropped journals titles as of 11-16-99) Approximately 33,000 bibliographic records are added per year.
START DATES: Full text: Jan 1996 (varies) Abstracts Aug 1994 Indexing June 1983
BENEFITS: 1. One-stop research database with full text. Serves teachers, students and researchers in all areas of education. 2. Consistent coverage of all facets of education. 3. Unique journal coverage not found in ERIC's CIJE (Cumulative Index to Journals in Education) database. 4. More comprehensive and accurate indexing / abstracting for those journals which are covered in ERIC.
UPDATES: Updates - 4x / week
Book Review Digest
Book Review Digest, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews is at least three of the periodicals. An exception is made for books reviewed in the Reference Books Bulletin section of Booklist. For these books one review is sufficient. Reviews must have appeared within 18 months after a book was published, and at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded.
Generally, not more than three review excerpts for fiction or four for nonfiction are included. An exception is made for books of unusual importance or of a controversial nature, where additional excerpts are included to reflect differing points of view. There is no limit on the number of review citations included.
Children's Catalog
TARGET AUDIENCE: Public, school, and academic/education libraries
DESCRIPTION: Children's Catalog is the electronic version of Wilson's standard reference work of the same name. Children's Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. Fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, and picture books are classified by subject according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. The database includes 8,000 titles, primarily books.
BENEFITS: This is designed for use in selection, and ordering of titles; verification of information; curriculum support, collection maintenance; readers guidance; and coursework in literature and book selection.
SCOPE: 17th edition 1996-2000
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated
Target Audience High school, public, academic, special / corporate libraries.
DESCRIPTION:
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history.
The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images and Citation Link (ICT), each of which contains a link to the additional records. In addition to the biographical profiles contained in Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, the database also contains thousands of additional full-text, abstract, and citation records relating to those subjects. These supplemental records are accessible through the text of the biography on the subject. Many of the biographies contain four fields at the end of the article: Full Text Link (IUR), Abstract Link (IAB), Book Review Link (IBR),
BENEFITS: All of Wilson's biographical reference works in a single database. - Authoritative, reliable biographies. - All access points currently available for print versions, including Name, Year of Publication, Source Publication, AS WELL AS additional access points unique to electronic versions: Profession /Genre, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Date of Birth, Place of Origin, more. - Biography SearchPlus screen has been developed for easy, powerful searching of biographical data. - Additional records from other Wilson databases enhance and supplement
UPDATES: updated monthly.
Biography Reference Bank
Target Audience: High School, public, academic, special/corporate libraries
DESCRIPTION
The Biography Reference Bank database includes all the content coverage of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated combined with the wide-ranging periodicals-driven coverage delivered by Biography Index. The proposed database is one of the most extensive biographical resources available.Biography Reference Bank covers more than 170,000 names. You'll retrieve:
- Full text profiles and interviews
- Complete biographical profiles produced by The H. W. Wilson Company
- Profiles licensed from outstanding biographical sources from other leading publishers
- Article abstracts and index citations from thousands of sources
- Images
In addition, Biography Reference Bank grows over the course of your subscription:
The latest coverage of biographical subjects, as it appears in a wide range of serials, adds to and expands on the entries retrieved.
Thousands of new names are added as biographical material appears in journals, magazines, and books.
BENEFITS: Authoritative reliable biographies All access points currently available for print versions, including Name, Year of Publication, Source Publication AS WELL AS additional access points unique to electronic versions: Profession/Genre, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Date of Birth, Place of Origin, more
UPDATES: Monthly
2. What are the hardware and software requirements for using all the features of the product?
To access Wilson Databases on WWW, the system needs Internet access using Netscape 3.0 or higher or MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
3. Is remote access included for the subscription price? If there are additional charges or requirements in order to offer remote access, please describe. What methods of remote access are supported?
Remote access is included in the subscription price. The following methods of remote authentication are available: validation of library cards/bar codes, HTMO referrer, proxy server links, and password/id's.
4. Please discuss any methods or assistance you offer regarding remote access patron verification and authentication.
There are several options which are available to our WilsonWeb customers.
Library patron barcode or ID accesses the library system as a gateway to WilsonWeb access.
The authentication would occur before the patron is passed through the gateway on the library system side of the process. Then the library's IP address, or a range of IP address, would be used to authorize incoming search requests. Alternatively, if the library has a secure Web page, the IP address of the Web page could be used to authorize incoming search requests.Proxy Server as described below:
Library Web page access: WilsonWeb allows access through the library's web page. The IP address of the library's web page would be used to authorize access of incoming search requests. The library would be responsible for authenticating users who access the library's web page i.e., the library would have a secure web page.Library system access: WilsonWeb can be accessed by libraries with local automated library systems. This could be accomplished by setting up the OPAC system to be a gateway. In a possible scenario, the OPAC menu would display an option for WilsonWeb. When a user selects the option, the OPAC system accesses a scripted file that would start up a Netscape application. The ID/PW required for access to the WilsonWeb would be included in the script file so the use would not be aware of it. Alternatively, an IP address of the library's server could be registered for authorized access.
5. What end user delivery options, such as printing, emailing or faxing results, are available beyond just viewing results on the computer monitor?
The end user delivery options, such as printing or emailing results are available beyond just viewing results on the computer monitor.
6. What customer training is provided, and at what cost?
WilsonWeb has been designed to present the user interface with clear, concise screen displays in a graphical, Windows or Windows-like format. The WilsonWeb search engine provides simple, command oriented searching. These features, in addition to the context sensitive help, which is available at any point in a search, mean that minimal instruction or documentation is needed for an end user to execute a successful search.
Besides WilsonWeb's user friendly interface, extensive help messages are imbedded in the product. In addition, a "Quick Reference Guide" (QRG) is resident on the Wilson Home Page. The QRG provides instructions and documentation on the basic features of WilsonWeb. It is updated frequently and has been designed for easy downloading to a local workstation. The QRG information is also available in an abbreviated format on a card for use beside the workstation and would be an ideal accompaniment to a training session.
Finally, tech support can answer questions regarding searching and functionality of the WilsonWeb software. This support and those listed above are provided at no charge.
7. What customer and technical support is provided, including hours of operation.
Technical support is available 24 hours/ day, 7 days/ week.
Wilson offers a variety of options to facilitate effective technical support:
- via a toll free number: customers can call 800/367-6770 at all hours
- via e-mail: WilsonWeb feedback link on the service or e-mail questions to [email protected].
- In addition, Wilson's interactive technical support on the web provides fast answers to questions about WilsonWeb and WILSONDISC. Customers can consult a database of Frequently Asked Questions or submit their own inquiries at the following address; http://hwwtechnicalsupport.com
Wilson's technical support reps post answers by the next business day and then follow up with a phone call or e-mail contact to ensure that the issue has been addressed to the customer's satisfaction.
8. Describe the statistics you provide, and discuss whether your statistical reporting complies with guidelines developed by the International Coalition of Library Consortia which may be found at www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html .
Statistical reporting complies in part with the guidelines developed by the International Coalition of Library Consortia. The current WilsonWeb report includes the name of the institution, number of searches and number of records downloaded, by database, for the current month, last month, and year-to-date. Reports can be produced by databases; by community of interest entity-defined IP addresses; by community of interest type and by total of all community of interest types; by special element passed by community of interest entity; and by time period.
Presently the available reports are generated monthly by the company and provided to customers in hard-copy format or via e-mail upon request. We are also evaluating the most efficient manner by which to make the reports available in electronic format. WilsonWeb reports are in a continued state of development. We are using requirements of our customers as the basis for enhancements to the reporting functionality.
9. Describe your pricing structure or formula for the product. If there are additional costs for retrieving full text, describe the pricing for this service.