Special emphasis is given to literature from Eastern Europe and to non-conventional literature.
The database is in English, the text of the classification is additionally available in German. For non-English literature, usually the original title, mostly in French or German, is given additionally. Part of the citations contain abstracts. Preliminary and parallel publications as well as translations are cited together with the basic document in one document unit, wherever possible. Producer of the database is the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin.