While purchase information is included, helpful bibliographic elements, such as the Superintendent of Documents number, are not. Nor is there any mention of the ready availability of such items in depository libraries. In some records, numerous fields are blank. As they refine the process for gathering the information, we can hope that some of the problems will be resolved. They are in a beta test phase for a program named Explore, which is designed to offer interactive searching of very large statistical databases.
Many menu items are links to other Internet resources or gophers.
Like the rest of the Consortium's products, the server is at its beginning stage of development. Some menu options are pretty slim on resources, with perhaps just a single item under a specific heading. Interestingly, the names of individual records differ between the catalog interface and the gopher server. This choice presents a subject listing of gopher connections. The title can be misleading, since many individual links are not directly related to environmental topics.