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The Inspec database contains over 10 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology.

The Inspec database is the world's largest and most comprehensive English-language bibliographic database, in physics, electronics and computing. Developed from 'Science Abstracts', first published in January 1898, Inspec now scans over 4,000 journals (and other serial publications) worldwide, 2,000 conference proceedings and numerous books, reports, articles and dissertations, for inclusion in the database. From 1969 to the present day, the size of the database has grown to ten gigabytes of data and contains around ten million records.

Inspec provides comprehensive coverage of traditional and cutting-edge publications in the specific fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering.

In addition there is significant coverage of areas such as operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
Inspec 1969-date	Weekly	Internet	Released	Ovid
Inspec Loader	None	Local	Released	Ovid
INSPEC Monthly Update Hard Disc Access ONLY 1969 to	Monthly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter
Inspec Archive File 1898-1968 - LEASE Option	None	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter
INSPEC Weekly Updates Internet/QUIKdata access only 1969 to Pres	Weekly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter

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