Coverage extends primarily from the mid-1980s to the current date for most of the newspapers. It provides over 70,000 articles annually from over 500 newspapers and 10 newswires. Included are coverage of the arts, such as theater, film, music, literature, and television, and coverage of important names in the news, such as actors, politicians, industry leaders, U.S. Presidents, and athletes. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Records contain a list of papers presented at each conference.
This collection consists of approximately fifty online journals made available by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in various subject areas. Users may elect to search individual titles, multiple titles, or all titles contained in the collection. This database provides free abstract searching of all RAND documents which are available for unrestricted distribution. Organization deals with such issues as national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies. The tables of contents of recent issues of many journals can be viewed.