People who are new to the world of online information find interesting Web sites and a great quantity of information and then assume that everything else can be found there as well.
Information professionals know the limits of online sources, and the Internet in particular.
Librarians find students spending hours on the Net when a quick search in Readers' Guide or an almanac may find the answer more quickly. Given that definition, the answer remains no. Internet-accessible bibliographic databases represent only the rudimentary beginnings of a competitor to commercial online services. The databases are relatively few and far between, have little depth in years of coverage, and feature only simple search syntax. The U.S. federal government produces or sponsors a number of major bibliographic databases.