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 and click on “Forsyth Library”

How to access the Databases Click “Research Resources”

Click Here 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. #2 Limit your search if desired It’s usually best to leave these bottom limits set to “All”. #3 Click 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. l

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:  OR send an containing the article citation to: 

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, 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 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 Salm MaryAlice Wade Lynn Haggard Angela Barger

The End Created by Angela Barger & MaryAlice Wade August 2009