The file contains approximately 9 million records dating back to 1966.
Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
It provides users the capability to search across a large compendium of peer reviewed journal literature with a focus on the physical sciences. SPIN provides abstracts from over 80 scientific journals and proceedings, including those of AIP and its ten Member Societies. Links to full-text articles are provided for all of the AIP journals to which Perry Library subscribes online. These include the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data and Journal of Chemical Physics.