GlassFile is available from EINS, a European provider of scientific, technical and legal information. GlassFile plays a great part in extending the "materials" side of the databases pool of EINS. Being a part of the "materials" pool allows you to perform multiple databases cross queries (clustering strategy).

GlassFile contains more than 80,000 abstracts ranging from 1971 until today. All the documents are abstracted and then indexed according to a bilingual glass thesaurus (French <> English) developed by IPGA (this thesaurus is available on request). The databank is in French for the time period 1971 to 1985; then the titles of the abstracts are available in both French and English since 1985; from 1994 on, the abstracts are in English or in French.

GlassFile strong point is its very broad coverage:

Editorial coverage: the regularly scanned reviews are published in countries worlwide which results in a better exhaustivity and a better representativeness as well.

Geographical coverage: IPGA partners and corresponding members originate from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, United States, South America, Asia... Thus GlassFile remains close to specific problems and is prone to provide you with reliable and relevant information.