The database is updated quarterly and a backfile is available. Backfile discs are available. The full text of hundreds of famous poems is included as well. The electronic version of the venerable print encyclopedia which can be searched using natural language and which provides hypertext links to related articles of interest. An index of 1,580 academic and general interest periodicals.
Subjects covered include the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences and technology.
Coverage is for three years plus the current year. A backfile is also available which covers from 1980-1993. An index of over 900 general business and finance periodicals, trade journals, and local business journals with full-text for 460 titles. Company Profiles , a directory of 180,000 public and private companies and over 50,000 investment reports, is also included. Full-text releases from the PR Newswire, covering companies nationwide, plus an index to the current year of the Wall Street Journal , the finance section of the New York Times , and the last six months of the Asian Wall Street Journal add to the value of this resource.