ADDITIONS TO NEWLY REDESIGNED WILSONWEB

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

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To:	Charles Hamaker

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POWERFUL ADDITIONS TO NEWLY REDESIGNED WILSONWEB

Fast Improvements Reflect Commitment to Aggressive Customer-Driven
Development

New York, New York, March 29th, 2003-H.W. Wilson today announced powerful
additional enhancements to its newly redesigned WilsonWeb reference
database service, for even more versatile searching.  The new enhancements
reflect customer and reviewer feedback since the redesigned WilsonWeb was
released to subscribers in January 2003.  They include:

New All-Smart Search Query in Advanced Search

WilsonWeb's unique All-Smart Search query is a powerful, rules-based
search that takes full advantage of Wilson's rich indexing metadata. The
All-Smart Search assigns a relevancy ranking to each record depending on
which field in the citation it finds the search term or phrase.

The system first looks for the term(s) or phrase as a bound phrase at the
Subject level, in the Thesaurus, and in the Title fields, before going on
to other parts of the record, including full text. Records with the search
term as a subject heading always appear at the top of the results. Records
with terms found only in the text of the article appear further down in
results.

All-Smart Search returns only records that feature all the terms searched.
Previously, searches retrieved records with any of the terms searched,
resulting in a higher number of less relevant records.

New Keyword search capability in Advanced Search 

The Keyword search looks for the search term only in records'
bibliographic citation fields, including abstracts.  The full text of
articles is not searched, avoiding irrelevant hits. Your library's
administrator can choose between the "All-Smart Search" query and the
Keyword query as the default search setting, or assign defaults by user
group.

The Keyword Search returns only records that feature all the terms
searched, ranked for relevance by which bibliographic fields feature the
search term.

"Bound Phrase" searching in Basic Search simplified

Enclose the search phrase in quotation marks to retrieve only hits for
that precise phrase, for example "Greek tragedy."  This feature is
available in both the Natural Language & Boolean search modes.  Note that
the new WilsonWeb automatically does a bound phrase search (with or
without quotation marks) when All-Smart Search is selected.

AND, OR, NOT, and IN in Boolean searches

Users are now able to choose between Natural Language and Boolean Search
through radio buttons on the Basic Search Screen.  Library administrators
can change the default setting from Natural Language to Boolean Search.  
In the Boolean search, WilsonWeb automatically recognizes Boolean
operators-no brackets or special characters necessary.

Interface enhancements 

�	Expanded tool tips-tool tips for the icons next to records have
	been changed for added clarity. (IE browser users only) 
�	Text for Holdings icon legend in search results has been changed 
	to read "Library Owns?" 
�	A new, more visible database selection scrollbar makes it easier 
	for customers with subscriptions to more than nine WilsonWeb 
	databases to easily identify all possible databases they want to 
	search. (IE browser users only.) 
�	When the user selects the Date or the Custom Sort options, Relevancy
	Ranking numbers are no longer being displayed next to the record. 
�	Highlighting of search terms has been changed from red to black,
	bold and italicized, addressing visibility issues for some common 
	types of color blindness.   

The WilsonWeb redesign was launched to accolades from both reviewers and
search screen is improved, searching is tremendously powerful, [and]
customization options are broader."  

More improvements are in the works.  For more on the new WilsonWeb, visit
www.hwwilson.com.

About H.W. Wilson

Since 1898, the independent publisher H.W. Wilson has provided researchers
with indexing, abstracting, and full text information produced with
unmatched editorial integrity.  From the long-popular Readers' Guide to
Periodical Literature and Biography Reference Bank to WilsonWeb, the
company's next-generation online search technology, H.W. Wilson products
are created for librarians, by librarians.  For more information, visit
www.hwwilson.com.
 
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