About two-thirds are openings at the rank of assistant professor. The JIL is available online 27 September 2000 to 30 June 2001 for the 2000-2001 subscription period. Listings are updated weekly. Every Thursday, all listings submitted in the previous seven days will be added to the database. Job seekers have the option to search the database for only those listings posted since a specified date.
New listings remain online for six weeks.
Job listings are made available as two databases or editions that are subscribed to separately. The English edition contains job announcements from departments of English and American language and literature, including writing programs. The foreign language edition contains listings from departments of foreign languages. Job announcements from programs such as comparative literature, linguistics, and ESL are duplicated in both the English and foreign language editions. Positions from overseas institutions are published in either the English or the foreign language edition as appropriate.