WilsonWeb databases move to EBSCOhost February 1, 2012

As of Wednesday, February 1, 2012, all content formerly offered on H.W. Wilson's WilsonWeb interface will only be available on EBSCOhost. For K-State Libraries, the following resources are affected:

• Applied Science & Technology Index
• Art Full Text
• Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
• Education Full Text
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
• Play Index
• Readers' Guide Retrospective

These resouces are already available on EBSCOhost. Until February 1, they will remain available on WilsonWeb. These changes have implications at both the database and the journal/journal article levels. Let's look at them separately.

Databases:
If you are using any of the above resources as a database by linking directly to it and searching within it, you should encounter few, if any, problems. K-State Libraries' gateways to these resources (catalog records and entries in the Databases Directory) have already been changed to use EBSCOhost URLs. Any WilsonWeb URL that you have bookmarked or placed on another web page should redirect to EBSCOhost come Feb. 1; plan to change it as soon as you can. See the resource's catalog record or Databases Directory entry for the correct URL.

Journals and Journal Articles:
Only a subset of the resources listed above contain full text and are relevant to this section. They are:

• Art Full Text
• Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
• Education Full Text
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text

Until February 1, linking to journals or journal articles within these resources via the E-Journals list or Get It menu will take you to the WilsonWeb interface.

On February 1,the journal and full text article linking situation within these 4 resources will become so uncertain that I am taking steps to suppress them when other full text options exist (effective Feb. 1 until the linking situation stabilizes). Get It and the E-Journals list will still offer links to these resources when they are a journal's or journal article's only full text option. When this happens, you may be fine or you may wind up in the dreaded Get It loop*.

Should you wind up in a Get It loop, try any/all of these suggestions:

1. Use the Get It menu's Catalog link to check for a print version of the journal/journal article.
2. Use the resource's catalog or Database Directory entry to link directly to the resource; search or browse for the journal/journal article.
3. Help the user place an ILL request.
4. In all cases, report the loop to Jane Hale. Include the citation you were looking for, the resource that offered you the Get It button, and any measures you took to get out of the loop.

Please comment on this post with any questions about these changes.

* The Get It loop occurs when you click the Get It button within a specific resource to get the full text of an article citation. The Get It menu presents you with a full text link to the resource you just came from and where you found no full text. If you click this link, you will be presented with the article's citation and another Get It button. Because Get It believes that the resource contains full text, the Get It menu will not offer you a link to ILL.

Comments

[Jason Coleman]

Thank you for this very detailed post, Jamene! I'll add that it looks as though EBSCO host has only created a mobile version for one of the databases "Biological and Agricultural Index." Harish has updated the mobile directory accordingly. Thank you for updating the mobile links from the databases directory!