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The National Agricultural Library (NAL): AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access). AGRICOLA is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records. This database is organized into two bibliographic data sets, which must be searched separately. One data set is the Online Public Access Catalog, known as "Books, etc.," that contains citations for books, audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other NAL and cooperator holdings. The other data set is the Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles, etc." It includes citations, many with abstracts, for journal articles (see List of Journals Indexed), book chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the materials cataloged in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed materials.

CARL Corporation: UnCover. UnCover is actually an online article delivery service, a database of current article information taken from 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information about over 7,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. More than 4000 current citations are added daily. Alternate access also via telnet.

GeoRef Preview Database. Free access to references of recent geoscience publications (via AGI)! Each weekend, completed references are removed from the Preview database and transferred to GeoRef, new references are added, and changes are made in the remaining data. Go to GeoRef Preview by Subject, press the search button. In the word search, truncation is with an *, e.g. volcano*. The Boolean operators, and, and not, and or may be used. Excellent!
See also: The Australian National University, Earth Sciences Library: Georef and AESIS Searching Guide. Material from a tutorial.

American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA: GeoRef Information Services. The GeoRef database provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 60,000 references a year. Search the GeoRef Preview Database for free access. Also worth checking out: Index of /PDF. Georef Serial lists (PDF files). Journals in alphabetical order.

Peter Scott, Saskatoon, Canada: HYTELNET. This second to none utility which gives an IBM-PC user instant access to all telnet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, BBSs, Gophers, WAIS etc. Passwords and log-in procedures are briefly explained. You can get it via anonymus ftp from ftp://ftp.usask.ca/pub/hytelnet/pc/latest/hyteln69.zip. Alternative WEB access via EiNet is HYTELNET 6.8 by GALAXY.

U.S. Library of Medicine, PubMed: MEDLINE, or via HealthGate: MEDLINE.