Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. The database contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre since October 1993. Each year over 15,000 proceedings are indexed, covering a wide range of subjects published as serials, monographs, or microform. Over 500,000 bibliographic citations for individual conference papers will be added annually.
Most records are in English, with many languages represented in the source documents.
Good for searching, viewing, and analyzing patent documents. It is the electronic equivalent to Mathematical Reviews covering the years 1940 to the present. Review texts and abstracts are available from 1940-present. NTIS covers 1964 to the present and indexes bibliographies, conferences, symposia, meetings, government documents, journal articles, microforms, patents, reports, standards, theses and dissertations, translations. Access to NTIS is through an online service called Dialog.