Database Contains Scientific Articles

  • 08/01/96

H.W. Wilson has expanded its long-standing partnership with UMI, a Bell and Howell company, to create a new database that will serve the information needs of the scientific and technical communities. Using Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts as a springboard, UMI will release a full-text/full-image CD-ROM database containing complete articles from publications such as Mechanical Engineering and Water Environment Research. Abstracting will be available from March 1993 forward, with updates performed monthly. Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts includes over 750,000 records and 1 million pages of information. H.W. Wilson, Bronx, NY, (800) 367-6770, http://www.hwwilson.com.

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