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WILSON WEB DATABASE COLLECTION
Art Full-Text
Business Full-Text
Education Full -ext
General Science Full-Text
Humanities Full-Text
OmniFile Full-Text
Readers’ Guide Full-Text
Social Sciences Full-Text
What is it?
Wilson Web is a collection of databases which contains many full-text articles on a variety of subjects.
Search one or all of these databases:
Click or use the arrow keys to advance to the
next slide.
To access the Library’s Website:
Go to the FHSU website at
www.fhsu.eduand click on
“Forsyth Library”
How to access the Databases
Click “Resear
ch Resourc
es”
ClickHere
Important:If you are
off-campus, you must
first set up OFF-
CAMPUS ACCESS in order to
search the databases.
click
Scroll down and click Wilson
OmniFile
To Access Wilson OmniFile
Check “OmniFile” to search ALL the collections, or choose one or
more of the collections to search
Click “Database
Descriptions” to find out more about
each collection.
Wilson OmniFile defaults to an Advanced Search
An Advanced
Search allows
you combine
words using
AND, OR, or NOT. You can
also limit to full-text articles,
to scholarly
(peer-reviewed) articles,
and/or by date, if
desired.
#1: Type in your search terms.
#2Limit your
search if desired
It’s usually best to leave these bottom limits set to “All”.
#3Click Start
Steps in an Advanced Search
Results List when you limit your search to Full-Text Articles
Usually get fewer results
But the complete article is available for all 59 results
Results List without limiting to Full-Text
No Full-Text Link
Some results do not have full-text
available, others do
Yields More Results
To limit or not to limit?
The most efficient way to search is
usually to begin by limiting to Full-Text articles only. That way you know you will have access to all the articles you
find.
If you do not find enough articles, broaden your search by removing the limit to full-text, and/or by changing your search terms to something less specific.
“Get Article” link
Articles that are not full-text in WilsonWeb will have a “Get Article” link. Click this
link to search our other databases for the full-text of the article.
This article was found in the database Sage Premier
If the article is not found, you will see this screen:
In other databases, the “Get Article” function is called
“LinkSource”
Don’t give up yet!
It is possible we have the
article in PRINT. Ask a librarian how to find out.If we do not
have it in print either, you can
request it through
Interlibrary Loan.
www.fhsu.edu/library/ILL/index.shtml
For Distance Students
If you cannot find the full-text of the article you need by using Get Article/LinkSource, you can request it through Distance Services:
www.fhsu.edu/library/distance/index.shtml
OR send an e-mail containing the article citation to: [email protected]
A Full-Text (HTML) Article looks just like a word document—no graphics
HTML articles can be translated into
different languages, or you can listen
to/download an audio recording
HTML article translated into Spanish
You can print out the article, e-mail it to yourself, or save it to
your computer or to a flash drive.
Some articles are available as a PDF(portable document format)
A PDF article looks just like it does in the print journal, including any illustrations such as graphs. It also lists the page numbers, which you will need for your bibliography, so choose PDF instead of HTML when you can.
To Print or save a PDF article
Click the printer icon in the gray frame at the top of the document (NOT the File-print command) to print the article, or click the file icon to save the article to your
computer or flash drive.
You can print from any library computer
Printouts from library computers are 5¢
You can pay cash or use your Tiger Card
Ask about how to print front/back to save $!
Pick up your printouts at the Circulation/Reserve Desk
Creating a WilsonWeb Account
Click “My WilsonWeb”
An account allows you to save articles and searches for future reference, and set up alerts to
let you know when new content of interest to you is added to
the database.
Click “Save to My WilsonWeb” to save the article in your folder.
Use these icons to create alerts, set up RSS feed, etc.
Receive alerts by e-mail or RSS feed
Select how often and for how long you
want to receive articles from this search
For more instructions, click Help at the top of the screen & select RSS Feeds
Questions? Just ask!
Judy Salm628-4537
MaryAlice Wade628-4342
Lynn Haggard628-5566
Angela Barger628-4529 [email protected]
