The National Academy Press Web site is very straightforward and easy to use for the most part. It is optimized for online purchasing of the various books though which makes the full text options a bit less apparent on the screen. I find all 3 of them to be very useful. Back to the Top 2. This site helped start the emergence of electronic journals and has assisted in pushing publishers toward acceptance of electronic versions of their publications.
Options are available for either browsing or searching the archives.
Searching can be done using names, words, or phrases in the author, title, and abstract fields or by an identification number, while records for new or recent papers added to the archive can be easily browsed. Basically, it provides the essentials quite well and leaves out the extraneous. Also, some of the explanatory pages are written in a rather irreverent fashion. Adequate help information is available and the organization works. Be aware, due to the many data formats in which the full text of the papers can be retrieved, that response time for that purpose can be only so-so.