Facts on File brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.

The database also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive.

The six databases from which content has been selected are:
- Issues and Controversies On File
- Today's Science On File
- Editorials On File
- Reuters On-Line News Service
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts
- The World Almanac Encyclopedia (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia)

FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940.

FACTS.com is updated every week. In addition, headline news stories from Reuters are updated every hour.

Covers: 1940 - present

Updated: weekly except Reuters news (hourly)

Media: on-line

Produced by: Facts On File News Services