Founded in 1988 at Johns Hopkins University. The Melvyl Union Catalog, the Ten-Year Catalog subset, and the Periodicals database are available to all users. Allows to search in a set of over 26'000 journal articles published since 1990. The research abstracted in this database covers a wide variety of topics that span the time period from 1967 to October, 1993. This database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations.
Enough information is given in each citation so that the user can locate titles of interest.
It is hoped that it will encourage contact and possible partnerships or joint projects and that it will increase awareness of the research being carried out in a field which is changing rapidly .