Subject coverage includes official news from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Indexes papers for over 15,000 conferences worldwide, collected each year by the British Library Document Supply Centre. It provides extensive coverage of science and technology. Provides details from the contents pages of over 10,000 of the most frequently requested serial titles held at the British Library Document Supply Centre. Provides citations and selected abstracts to articles in 20,000 journals and 100,000 conference proceedings held at the British Library.
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The database now contains over 16 million records and is growing at a rate of two million records a year. As an archival database, issues of recent 3-5 years are not available. Both browsing and full-text searching are supported. Provides descriptions to more than 6,500 CD-ROMs as well as equipment and software, suppliers, and relevant books, journals, conferences, and exhibitions. NetFirst Provides bibliographic records to Internet resources including World Wide Web sites, FTP sites, Gopher sites, Usenet newsgroups, and Telnet sessions.