EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is pleased to announce that, upon recently licensing 11 new databases from H.W. Wilson, General Science Abstracts is the second database available for customers to trial and purchase via EBSCOhost^®. Readers' Guide Abstracts was the first of the newly licensed databases to be made available. Because EBSCO has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with H.W. Wilson (offering several other databases), EBSCO is equipped to handle the data type for these databases and plans to release others in rapid succession.

General Science Abstracts, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes articles from over 240 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain including popular science magazines and professional journals such as Popular Science, BioScience, Ecology, and International Wildlife. Designed for students and non-specialists, coverage in General Science Abstracts includes feature articles, reports of symposia and conferences, biographical articles, obituaries, reviews and selected letters to the editor. Topics covered include: astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, health & medicine, zoology, etc. General Science Abstracts database contains indexing back to 1984.

Additional Wilson databases soon to be available via EBSCOhost include:

• Art Index Retrospective
• Bibliographic Index
• Biological & Agricultural Index
• Book Review Digest
• Current Biography Illustrated
• Essay and General Literature Index
• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
• Library Literature & Information Science
• Short Story Index

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. H.W. Wilson products are created for librarians, by librarians. For more information, visit www.hwwilson.com.

Release Date: June 6, 2003