Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Compendex Plus indexes technical journal articles, reports, society publications, books and conference proceedings in engineering and applied science. Areas of engineering covered include aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, materials, mechanical and related fields. It offers access to evaluated WWW sites and resources, along with Compendex Plus for abstracts of articles, reports and conference proceedings.
Coverage includes publications from popular science magazines to professional science journals.
Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. It also indexes the last six months of the New York Times. The full text of many, but not all, articles is included.