OCLC's NetFirst
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NetFirst, provided by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is
part of the FirstSearch suite of bibliographic tools. It is OCLC's
first large scale attempt to create a bibliographic resource for
searching Internet resources. Simple searching can be done on
title or subject headings, and the search engine also supports
complete Boolean AND/OR/NOT, proximity, and field searching. Word
lists (inverted indexes of the database) are available in order to
aid searching. Records contain bibliographic and access
information, along with detailed summaries of the resource.
NetFirst plans to incorporate all major Internet resource types in
its database. Web pages and listservs are available now. NetFirst
should not be confused with another OCLC service, InterCAT.
NetFirst does not rely on volunteers to create its database as
InterCAT does. NetFirst "uses a combination of automated
collection and ver

Address : http://www.oclc.org/oclc/netfirst/netfirst.htm
Year    : 1996
Archived: first capture 1997
Reviewed : 24 May 1996, by The Scout Report
Source  : The Scout Report, Net Scout Services / InterNIC, 1994-99
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