H.W. Wilson Makes its 2 Million-Item Database Available Over the Web
to booktech.com for its Educators' Online Library -- 9:28 AM EDT
WOBURN, Mass., Oct 31, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Through an agreement with
H.W.Wilson, booktech.com, (AMEX: BTC) a first mover in digital and on-demand
custom content publishing, will make the content of the Wilson OmniFile: Full
Text Mega Edition available on its Web site to the growing number of educators
interested in creating custom teaching materials. This immense archive,
H.W.Wilson's largest full-text digital database, indexes an unprecedented two
million items; it currently contains full text versions of 760 periodicals and
comprehensive abstracts for 2,700 documents.
With this alliance, the world's leader in reference databases and indices joins
forces with booktech.com, the premiere online provider of printed and digital
customized teaching materials. Educators from all walks of life and
institutions, including corporate and professional trainers, will now have
online access to a wealth of knowledge and information for use in their own
self-designed custom textbooks.
The Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is an exhaustive, weekly updated
catalogue of titles in education, the social sciences, business, pure and
applied sciences, and the humanities, as well as many other disciplines.
Committees of librarians appointed by the American Library Association carefully
select the titles covered in all of H.W. Wilson's databases. This makes the
Wilson OmniFile a perfect counterpart to booktech.com's Educators' Online
Library (EOL), which is compiled as educators select articles, book chapters,
and any other material, including their own notes, for use in classrooms around
the country. Registered educators will be able to search the OmniFile on
booktech.com's site and select items for inclusion in their custom teaching
materials.
A virtual ocean of highly valuable specialized literature, the Wilson OmniFile:
Full Text Mega Edition is a conglomerate of six of Wilson's largest databases,
and is notable for its unique cross-discipline searchability. This search-engine
logic makes access to the database acutely suited for educators who teach
non-traditional classes, or who simply wish to contextualize their material
within a broader milieu. The database is searchable by subject terms, keywords,
journal titles, author, personal names, dates, proximity, and Boolean operators,
so it is easy to find narrowly defined material. Access to this rich holding
furthers booktech.com's commitment to aid educators in creating texts that are
innovative, relevant and concise.
About booktech.com
booktech.com (www.booktech.com), founded in 1995 and headquartered in Woburn,
MA, is a digital and online publisher of customized textbooks, or coursepackets,
and other educational materials for higher education, K-12 schools, distance
education, not-for-profit organizations, and corporate training. Company shares
have traded on the American Stock Exchange since April 5, 2000 (symbol:
AMEX/BTC). booktech.com has published customized textbooks for more than 3,000
professors on 450 campuses. It is becoming an important custom publishing
resource for K-12 schools with such noteworthy titles as Breaking the Spanish
Barrier, Breaking the French Barrier, Trade Routes, and Choices. booktech.com is
the custom publishing partner to a growing list of leading institutions in
distance education which value its capabilities for delivering customized and
copyright-protected educational materials as electronic downloads, CD-ROM's, or
printed books.
About H.W. Wilson
The H.W. Wilson Company, founded in 1898, invented the first widely available
periodical index, the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (the "big green
books"), in 1901. They now produce more than 40 reference databases available in
many formats: print, CD-ROM and on the Web. H.W. Wilson staff compiles the
database and write abstracts, creating a standard of excellence by which other
indices are judged. H.W. Wilson and its popular reference tools are well known
and well loved by generations of students and librarians in K-12, public, and
college libraries.
Complete list of journals included in the Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega
Edition. (http://www.hwwilson.com/journals/amdi.htm)
CONTACT: booktech.com:
October Ivins
(781) 933-5400
or
Investor Relations:
Marly Rusoff
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