The databases are updated monthly. AST indexes 390 periodicals including trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, buyers' guides, directories and conference proceedings. BAI indexes 225 periodicals including a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture. LPI cites core legal periodicals in all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions and new legislation originating in the United States, Puerto Rico, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. 1983- HUM cites articles from 335 periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
Periodical coverage includes scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but specialized magazines.
You may search specific fields directly from the command line . Each searchable field has a two letter abbreviation. Multiple fields may be searched in the same search statement. Just as in keyword searching in MUSE, field codes begin and end with periods. When searching multiple fields at the same time remember to separate each field code with a comma and end with a period.