The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Generally, new information is available within 48-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. Open to all KU students and staff connecting to the WWW via campus or a KU dial-up account. This database describes the items listed on the table of contents pages from individual issues of mearly 13,000 journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal.
Most records provide a list of librarires that hold the journal titles.
ContenstFirst contains the complete table of contents pages from individual issues of nearly 13,000 journals. Most of these are published in English, but some journals in other languages are includes as well. NetFirst is a database of Internet-accessible resources. Each record in the database contains location information that can be used to connect to resources of interest. NetFirst is continuously updated and records are regularly verified to make sure the item is still available on the Internet.