These sites make it easy for users to search the library's catalog remotely, however, in many cases, a personal visit to the library is required to access the actual books, journals, videotapes, audio CDs, etc. Some of these resources are available to UH students over the web, while other resources are only available to patrons who are on campus. Hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan, this resource has as its mission, to find, evaluate, organize, and bring together quality information resources on the web. Here you will also find links to reference materials such as almanacs, biographies, census data, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. The WWW Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the web itself.
Individual indexes live on hundreds of different servers around the world.
Another area where the Internet is having a great impact is in the publishing of scholarly material. Scholarly publishing, that is the the publishing of scientific, research-oriented and other academic articles, reports, manuscripts, and treatises has been around for several centuries and continues to evolve and grow. Much of the recent growth in scholarly publishing is related to the dramatic changes brought about by the information revolution. The Internet and the World Wide Web have helped create a new era of electronic scholarly journals in which more and more publications are appearing online. These and other interesting questions have been discussed in numerous forums and it seems, will continue to be debated for some time.