Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional 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. The database contains the following fields.
Highlighted fields are limit fields.
The AB field contains a summary of the document. You can search any word or phrase in the abstract. The AN field contains a unique 12-digit code that identifies the document. Author's names can be searched with or without hyphens. When searching without hyphens, type last name followed by first name or first name followed by last name.