Access to the InfoTrac, ProQuest, and OCLC FirstSearch databases is supported by appropriations from the Minnesota Legislature. Representing a wide variety of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, the database includes entries on such authors as Muhammad, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Maya Angelou. Each record identifies libraries that own the title. The OCLC NetFirst Database NetFirst is an authoritative database of Internet-accessible resources. NetFirst contains bibliographic citations, complete with summary descriptions and subject headings that describe resources such as Web pages, interest groups, library catalogs, FTP sites, Internet services, Gopher sites, electronic lists, electronic journals, and newsletters.
Records contain location information that can be used to connect users to resources of interest.
NetFirst is updated continually, and records are verified regularly to make sure the item is still available on the Internet. The OCLC ArticleFirst Database ArticleFirst describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of nearly 13,000 journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. Most records provide a list of libraries that hold the journal title. Subjects include business, the humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences, and technology.