SilverPlatter Releases Five New H.W. Wilson Databases

May 22, 1995 -- In conjunction with The H.W. Wilson Company, SilverPlatter
Information has released five new databases: Book Review Digest, Library
Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts Select Edition, Wilson Applied
Science & Technology Abstracts and Wilson General Science Abstracts.

Book Review Digest provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of
current adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Over 6,400
English-language books are covered by the database each year. Concise,
critical evaluations are chosen from 95 selected American, British and
Canadian periodicals in the humanities, social and general sciences, as
well as library review media. Book Review Digest covers 1983 to the
present with quarterly updates.

Library Literature offers easy access to a broad spectrum of information
crucial to the operation of school, university, public, special and
professional libraries. Library Literature covers the following subject
areas: cataloging, censorship, circulation procedures, copyright
legislation, government funding, information brokers, library
associations, CD-ROM searching, personnel management, public relations,
publishing, rare books and more. Library Literature coverage is from 1984
to the present and is updated quarterly.

Readers' Guide Abstracts Select Edition provides selective abstracting and
indexing of the 240 periodicals covered in RGA and complete coverage of
The New York Times. Articles are selected for their permanent research
value to libraries. Readers' Guide Abstracts Select Edition contains
150,000 records, with 34,000 records added annually. Indexing and
abstracting coverage is from 1988.

Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts provides information in the
fields of engineering, technology, and science with comprehensive
abstracting and indexing of approximately 400 core scientific and
technical publications. In addition, the database provides access to
product reviews and references to conferences and seminars. Wilson Applied
Science & Technology Abstracts contains 650,000 records, with 64,000
records added annually. Virtually all records contain detailed abstracts.
Indexing coverage is from 1983 and abstracting is from 1993.

Wilson General Science Abstracts provides instant access to a broad range
of disciplines, including astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany,
chemistry, earth science, environment and conservation, food and
nutrition, genetics, mathematics, medicine, nursing and health,
oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology. The database provides
comprehensive abstracting and indexing of 140 popular and professional
science journals published in the United States and Great Britain and the
Science Section of The New York Times. Subject headings have been designed
for the nonspecialist, with cross-references from technical terms or
chemical designations to common-language terms, offering patrons of all
ages and backgrounds an effective means of locating the scientific
information. It contains 400,000 records, with 48,000 records added
annually. Indexing coverage is from 1984; abstracting coverage is from
1993.

For further information or to subscribe, contact:

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
100 River Ridge Drive
Norwood, MA 02062-5043
Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599
Fax: 1-617-769-8763
Internet: info@silverplatter.com

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