ANL indexes articles of two or more pages in length, from works published in English or another European language. Also covers demography, economics, ethnohistory, folklore, genetics, geography, geology, and psychology. Its more than one million entries also list the sources cited in each of those articles, and the database can be searched by the authors and some title keywords of those cited works. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. International coverage of articles in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Subject focus excludes pure and technical sciences.
PAIS is international and multilingual. The subject coverage includes current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, and consumer affairs. Readers Guides also includes book reviews. Indexes articles and book reviews in the key English-language periodicals in the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, geography, gerontology, international relations, law and criminology, minority studies, planning and public administration, police science and corrections, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, and urban studies. SA cites or abstracts articles from English-language periodicals in sociology.