Inspec , 1969- Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. It has a very comprehensive coverage of pure mathematics. Covers international research literature in mathematics and related areas including computer science. It is an interdisciplinary index to journal literature from 1980 to the present. From 1989 onwards, it covers over 1,500 scholarly and general-interest journals and magazines.
Coverage is very broad.
Describes biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and special issues of journals published as supplementary issues, review issues, or laboratory guides. It also cites book reviews. An index to computing literature covering international journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, doctoral theses and technical reports. It is useful for searching for articles that have cited a given article and which are therefore assumed to be on a related topic. It can also be searched by topic but lacks the depth of indexing of databases like Inspec .