First, we set up your search profile containing a detailed description of your order. Then we conduct a search in our daily updated database of the electronic editions of newspapers and/or electronic media broadcast transcripts. Newspapers and magazines available only in the printed edition are searched by humans. The search can be conducted daily or weekly - as often as you need. All articles found by machine and human readers are reviewed by Editor responsible for your order, who evaluates the relevance of each article to your search profile, writes summaries if required, and sorts the articles according to your subject headings. As a result you receive carefully filtered and conveniently organized full-text information to your order.

A search profile is the crucial instrument of efficient information retrieval. Actually, it is a set of instructions for both machine and human readers describing your information needs. A search profile contains a set of key words related to your subject, including synonyms and restricting words, a list of sources and a monitoring period for each order. Our Customer Service Manager will work with you to create a search profile to suit your information needs.

One... or ten, as many as needed to describe your subject of interest.

Yes, you can extend your search profile with additional keywords, if only they are related to the same subject. Adding keywords related to a different subject will be regarded as a new order.

Yes, your search criteria will be customized to match your information needs. There are many ways to exclude unwanted articles or to avoid unneeded duplication. You should only discuss your requirements with our Customer Service staff.

Yes, you can, if you order us only the text of articles or subscribe to a digest. We can set up your account at WPS web server which will store and organize all text data you purchase from WPS in a searchable database.

No, at present our database is an instrument of internal use. You can only get an online access to the text data you purchase from WPS.

There are a number of features that distinguish WPS from other monitoring services or online libraries: