ACCESSING ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES

                by Billy Barron and Marie-Christine Mahe
                       <gophlib@yaleinfo.yale.edu>

     (c) 1993 Billy Barron, Marie-Christine Mahe and Yale University

Permission is granted to any individual or institution to distribute
this document freely as long as it is not sold for profit.
Excerpts from this document may be used in other documents
provided credit is given.  While every precaution has been
taken in the preparation of this book, neither the authors
nor their home institutions can take any responsibility
for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the
use of this information.

This document used to be produced on a word-processor at the
University of North Texas by Billy (now at the University of
Texas in Dallas).  But its size was getting unmanageable, 
so it is now produced automatically from a list of Gopher links,
which serves as the central point of access for many sites.
Sorry about the loss of various pretty printing formats, but 
hopefully this information will be both more current, and accessed 
in the more useful electronic form rather than in this paper medium.

The Gopher links are located at the following equivalent sites:

Name=Internet-accessible library catalogs
Type=1
Host=yaleinfo.yale.edu
Port=7000
Path=1/Libraries

Or:

Host=gopher.utdallas.edu
Port=70
Path=1/Libraries

Or:

Host=gopher.sunet.se
Port=70
Path=1/libraries/yaleinfo

If you do not have a gopher client, one appropriate for your workstation 
can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the University of Minnesota, at 
boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher.

The paper document itself, in ASCII format, broken up by continents, 
including this introduction and a list of instructions for different 
catalogs, can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from 
ftp.utdallas.edu:/pub/staff/billy/libguide.  

We'd like to thank many people who have contributed to the development
of this list.  Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan,
whose Hytelnet was the first service to provide library connections, 
continues to collaborate in the maintenance of the links.  Lou Rosenfeld 
of the University of Michigan contributed many hours of testing
and editing, and serves as our official librarian.  Barry Bouwsma
tirelessly searches the net for references to the more exotic
catalogs.  Rich Wiggins and Dennis Boone of Michigan State University
provided the initial conversion from Hytelnet to Gopher, and Jan Eveleth
while at Yale University verified many links.  And numerous kind people 
have sent in corrections and additions to the list over the years.