Over 150,000 abstracts are added to the collection each year. More than 213,000 citations with abstracts are drawn from published and unpublished sources all over the world. Sources for materials include the US government, international agencies, family planning organisations, and databases on sociology, clinical medicine and health. Publication types include government reports, books, journals, technical reports, court decisions, dissertations, conference papers, unpublished reports and training manuals. ProQuest Academic Research Library provides abstracts and indexes to approximately 1,650 journals.
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Abstracted materials available from 1971 while full text and image material available from 1987. The subjects covered include behavioural sciences, chemistry, current affairs, health, history, geography, language, mathematics, psychology, science and sports. The database covers subjects such as literature, chemistry, psychology, business, economics, biology, history, philosophy, sociology, information science, etc. Abstracts are available for dissertations from 1980 to the present, and for masters theses from 1988 to the present. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.