It currently consists of approximately 8,000 records, the majority of which are journal articles as well as some topical books. It is an index of articles from over 600 international English language social science journals, from 1987 to the present. The database contains approximately 168,000 records and provides unique coverage of special educational and developmental aspects of children. Source documents include journal articles, monographs, research reports, theses, conference papers, legislation, parliamentary debates and newspaper articles. It provides access to 21 databases containing over 19 million bibliographic records.
Coverage extends to all subject areas and all countries.
Bookbank OP is available on CD-ROM and contains details of UK and some American out of print books. It gives details of 9000 official government publications a year, with hypertext links to full text documents where available on the Internet. It provides bibliographic references to 350 British and selected European English-language journals in the field of education and training from 1986 onwards. Monographic, report and conference literature is limited, but increasing. ERIC is the largest education database in the world, with files which extend back to 1966 and contain more than 700,000 records.