Ayn Rand's nonfiction writings extend over thousands of pages, in scores of essays, articles, periodicals and books. From the 1960s until her death, she elucidated the principles of Objectivism in such books as The Virtue of Selfishness and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Applying Objectivism to current affairs, Miss Rand wrote on such varied topics as Marilyn Monroe, antitrust and the Apollo 11 mission.

To help readers and researchers locate Ayn Rand's view on specific topics, ARI presents the Ayn Rand Bibliographic Search Engine. Based on The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, the search engine offers three ways of searching Miss Rand's corpus: enter a word or phrase of your choice, browse a group of topics by category, or browse an alphabetical listing of topics. Whichever option you use, the search engine will list the articles (or books or essays) in which Ayn Rand discussed a given topic, along with the page reference.