It gives details of 9000 official government publications a year, with hypertext links to full text documents where available on the Internet. It provides bibliographic references to 350 British and selected European English-language journals in the field of education and training from 1986 onwards. Monographic, report and conference literature is limited, but increasing. ERIC is the largest education database in the world, with files which extend back to 1966 and contain more than 700,000 records. ERIC indexes over 775 journals, mostly American, and provides good coverage of 'fugitive' literature, such as conference proceedings, speeches, theses and technical reports.
Most records contain an abstract.
British National Bibliography is available on CD-ROM and contains all records for books and serials deposited at the British Library from 1984 to the present. British Nursing Index is available on CD-ROM and contains references to over 220 nursing and allied health related journals. It dates from 1994 and has a strong UK coverage. As BNI is an index there are no abstracts of the articles. It provides information on the education, health and welfare of children and young people, including a comprehensive directory of organisations concerned with children, an index to all the key stories about children's issues that have appeared in the press since 1996, the holdings of the National Children's Bureau library, and a conferences and events database.