Humanities Abstracts, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art, dance, drama, and film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. The database provides access to some one million citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The Bibliography covers 1963 to the present. It's updated 10 times per year, with approximately 45,000 records added annually. Yale's access to the MLA Bibliography is through the Online Computer Library Center's FirstSearch service.
Every article is indexed.
The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over six million articles in 1,595 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than two million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles. The database is produced and copyrighted by the American Psychological Association and is updated monthly.