This new CD-ROM is a reference database. It covers almost twenty years of non-military scientific/technical meetings and publications sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. It contains full references (with keywords and/or abstracts) to more than 30,000 contributions from scientists all over the world and is published in more than 1,000 volumes. With the easy-to-follow menu options of the retrieval software, access to the data is simple and fast. Updates are planned on a yearly basis.