The database is useful for both the nonspecialist and the expert. Wilson General Science Abstracts is Wilson's General Science Index with abstracts. The abstracts range from 50 to 150 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Provides title enhancements for articles with ambiguous titles. Provides cross-references from scientific terms or chemical designations to common language terms.
Links trade names to generic names of drugs.
Combines citations for multi-part articles and discussions of previously indexed articles in the same record. The General Science databases are created by H.W. Wilson's Indexing and Abstracting Services Department. Periodicals are indexed by professional librarians with subject expertise. Abstracts are written by subject specialists. The General Science databases feature both free-text searching and controlled vocabulary searching.