It covers all the sciences, medicine, education, academic disciplines, industry, business, and major sporting events. EventLine can be used to find dates and locations of vital meetings, to plan a marketing strategy, assist in travel planning, compile statistics on trends in meetings, and more. Information on past events is retained in EventLine for retrospective searching. The information in the database comes primarily from original announcements and data researched by Elsevier. Extensive use of the input from the Excerpta Medica Embase operation is also a significant portion of the database, specifically the medical events.
Research done by freelance suppliers is an additional source of information.