NetFirst records contain bibliographic information, complete with summary descriptions, subject headings and classification codes describing Internet-accessible resources. Inspire users should be aware of the relative advantages of NetFirst as compared to other Internet search engines. These portals include many quality sites but they can also lead to broken links, falsified research and provide a gateway to sites on the internet that may be considered dangerous or 'inappropriate'. As a research tool, NetFirst is more selective and immediately usable. Users need not wade through long lists of extraneous objects.
Users can determine the relevance of a resource without leaving the database.
This makes Internet discovery far more efficient than is possible with indexes that contain only an address, title and the first few words or sentences contained in the resource. Internet resource types are covered, including those that are outside the reach of worms, robots and spiders. NetFirst can be searched using the Inspire interfaces. This new database cannot be accessed using EbscoHost.