The H. W. Wilson Company, Inc. is a publisher and indexing company that was founded in 1898 and is located in the Bronx, New York. It provides print and digital content aimed at patrons of public school, college, and professional libraries in both the United States and internationally. The company also provides indexing services that include text, retrospective, abstracting and indexing, as well other types of databases. Image gallery indexing includes art museum and cinema. The company also indexed reference monographs. An online retrieval system with various features, including language translation, is also available. The company merged with EBSCO Publishing in June 2011.[1][2] Grey House Publishing currently publishes print editions of H. W. Wilson products under license.
History
The H. W. Wilson Company was founded in 1898 by Halsey William Wilson, a student working his way through the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Together with his roommate, Henry S. Morris, Wilson started a book selling business serving educators and students at the university. When it was time for Morris to graduate, he sold his share of the business to Wilson. The H. W. Wilson Company's first original reference title was the Cumulative Book Index, first published in 1898. This was followed by the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature in 1901.