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| Instructional Guides |
| Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982 |
The information for this guide was extracted from the H.W. Wilson help web pages.
Book Review Digest Retrospective provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Citations with excerpts of reviews of juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language are included. Book Review Digest Retrospective covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, and most have at least two. Over a million book reviews are cited.
Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. However, reviews of books on science for the general reader are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Launch Book Review Digest Retrospective. It will launch at the Advanced Search page.
| 1. | Select Book Review Digest Retrospective from the yellow selection area. |
| 2. | Enter a word or phrase in the first text-entry area and make the appropriate selection from the as: drop-down list. When using the All - Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All - Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start. The search results will automatically show the most relevant articles at the top of the set when the Sort by Relevance option has been selected. |
| 3. | Note 1: Although automatic as part of the All-Smart Search, it is possible to create a Bound Phrase by entering quotation marks (" ") around your search terms. This has the effect of turning off stemming/truncation, and searches the exact terms entered. A failure to use the bound phrase in some cases will give the user undesirable results. For example, a search in the Title field for a record called Companies Not Behaving Badly, will treat the Not as an operator, eliminating all search terms Behaving Badly. If placed within quotation marks, the phrase “Companies Not Behaving Badly” returns the exact Title. Note 2: The new WilsonWeb database Play Index has a unique two-tiered Advanced Search screen. Simplified text entry boxes are used to search fields when looking for a play. There is also a radio button that takes the user to the more conventional Advanced Search screen that can be used for locating books related to the plays within the database. |
| 4. | Click Start. |
To change display options:
Click Customize Display, in the bottom taskbar, to open a screen where you can determine which fields are displayed, how records are sorted, how field names are displayed, and how many results are displayed per page.
To clear selections:
Click Clear in the bottom taskbar.
Note: The database selection and the sorting options are not cleared when using this button.
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Click the Print Email Save button on the left of your search results screen. Click the "+," or the words Print Options, Email Options, or Save Options, to conveniently expand the screen for necessary and specific selections. Click the "-" to close the expanded screen. For details about printing, emailing, or saving, click on the appropriate link below. In each instance of the screen, you will find a link for complete and detailed embedded instructions. |
This page was created March 2006 and is maintained by
Tiffini A. Travis
Communication Studies Librarian