The database consists of over 250,000 bibliographic records with abstracts citing journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media. Over 2,600 journals from 50 countries are scanned for inclusion in the database. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts indexes approximately 17,000 new records annually. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts is now updated quarterly. The database indexes publications in over 30 languages.
Abstracts are in English.
Titles appear in both their original languages as well as in translation. The databse includes the LLBA Thesaurus.