In all, Readers'
Guide Retrospective will cover 512 diverse periodicals indexed
by Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature over the course of
the product's history. Searches will encompass more than 2.5
million
entries.
Besides making library collections
more accessible - back to their oldest issues - Readers' Guide
Retrospective provides unique insights into the attitudes and
atmosphere at the time of history making events, with its
indexing of contemporaneous media coverage. This is a record
of an entire century of headlines, and a reflection of highs
and lows in America's outlook, popular culture, and society in
general.
From the wreck of the Titanic to
Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon; from the Charleston dance
craze to the Sharon Tate murders; from Hiroshima to the Bay of
Pigs, the database will deliver valuable and hard-to-find
information for students, journalists, educators, historians,
social scientists, writers, business researchers and others.
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 Many search options
Search by author, title, subject,
publication, year, Boolean operators, or any combination.
Updated subject headings allow users to search using familiar
terms. Older subject headings have been retained for the
research interest of historians, sociologists, linguists,
writers, and others interested in the way issues of the day
were framed. Contemporary subject headings are also displayed
with each citation.
This is a perfect supplement to
current Readers' Guide databases (Readers' Guide Full Text,
Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Readers' Guide to Periodical
Literature) and other contemporary periodicals indexes. Users
will be able to search Readers' Guide Retrospective
simultaneously with any other WilsonWeb database.
Coming soon to the Readers' Guide
family of databases is Readers' Guide Full Text, Select
Edition, a 100 percent full text database providing articles
(and page images) from 163 periodicals cover to cover, as far
back as
1994.
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