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Wilson Announces New E-mail Forum, Newsletter
H. W. Wilson has set up a new e-mail forum for users of it's WilsonWeb databases and other reference products. The H.W. Wilson Discussion Group will encourage subscribers to share information and ideas, air opinions and ask questions of other reference librarians. The Discussion Group will be unmoderated and comments will be posted without review. Wilson representatives will also participate by responding to specific questions about Wilson references.

At the same time, H.W. Wilson is launching Wilson E-News, an e-mail newsletter delivering tips for making the most of WilsonWeb databases in libraries. Wilson E- News will feature information from Wilson on new services, search tips and innovative ways to use Wilson products and services.

Both new services are free, and librarians of all levels are invited to subscribe. To subscribe to the Discussion Group, send an e-mail message to listserv@listserv.hwwilson.com, with subscribe hwwilson-1 your name in the message body. Subscribers to E-News should send a separate message, with subscribe hwwilson-enews your name in the message body.

H.W. Wilson Updates Database
Users of H.W. Wilson's Applied Science & Technology Full Text database can now click to complete graphical information from many of the journal articles cited. Page images are now included with the full-text content, article abstracts and indexing components of this database, making important photos, illustrations, graphs, charts and diagrams instantly available to researchers. The Applied Science & Technology Full Text database covers more than 480 periodicals and provides full text in a select 98 of the publications. Of those 98, 96 are represented with page images.

For questions or to subscribe to any reference database, contact BCR's Jim Hensinger (jhensinger@bcr.org) or Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).

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