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| Database Name: | Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts |
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| Acronym: | WBA; ASA; WAST |
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| Producer: | H.W. Wilson Company |
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| Type of Information: | Bibliographic |
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| Group(s): | ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, GEOLOGY, METALLURGY, MINING, PROCESSES |
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| Database Description: | Contains citations to articles, book reviews, interviews, new product reviews, selected editorials, and letters to the editor in worldwide English language publications in the applied sciences and technology. It also includes an index of non-English language periodicals if English abstracts are provided.
Covers such areas as: aeronautics and space science; chemistry; computer science and technology; construction; data processing; energy resources and research; engineering (chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical, mining, nuclear, and telecommunications); the environment; fire prevention; food industry; geology; machinery; marine technology and oceanography; mathematics; metallurgy; meteorology; mineralogy; optics; petroleum and gas; physics; plastics; robotics; solid state technology; telecommunications; textiles; transportation; water and waste. |
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| Information Sources: | More than 600 English language scientific and technical publications indexed for the printed version of "Applied Science and Technology Index" . |
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| Time Span: | Variable, according to the distributor |
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| Numer of Records: | More than 1.3 million |
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| Language: | English |
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| Updating Frequency: | Variable, according to the distributor |
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| Distributors: | DIALOG (online, only the Abstracts, from 1993 to date)
H.W. Wilson (online) : Index (since 1983) ; Retrospective Index (1913 - 1983) ; Full Texts (since1997)
OCLC (online, Index and Abstracts through the databank "OCLC FirstSearch")
Ovid Technologies (online) : Index and Abstracts (since 1983) ; Full Texts (since1997) |
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