The hard copy International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is not included in any of these prices, nor is any discount available with a concurrent subscription to the print format. On this compact disc, these series are refeis compact disc, these series are referred to as subsets. Unfortunately, unlike the hard copy edition, it is not possible to find a listing of journals arranged alphabetically with publisher information. IBSS Extra also indexes books, book reviews, and chapters when individual authors have contributed to a book. Approximately 100,000 citations are added to this database each year.
Individual records are available in two formats.
A brief citation record contains a title, author, source, publication type, publication date, and accession number. The limit function allows the user to choose a subset, language, publication type, and a specific year or a range of years. The asterisk is a truncation symbol. A user may fashion a very specific inquiry indeed, such as limiting the search to articles from anthropological journals published in Spanish after 1992. A number may be added to the latter operator to signify how close the two terms should be.