A few institutions have made a selection of their EAD-encoded finding aids available for viewing over the internet. Others send the finding aids directly as SGML, requiring the user to have an SGML-aware client to view them. Currently the only net-capable SGML browser is SoftQuad's Panorama.
Some institutions make their finding aids available in both formats.
Online Archive of California A selection from 13 institutions. A selection from 4 institutions covering finding aids that deal with American culture and heritage. Aids A subset of Mandeville Special Collections Library's finding aids are available in both SGML and HTML, generated programmatically from a database. The SGML version is indexed and searchable by means of Verity Query Language Yale University Finding Aids A collection of EAD-encoded finding aids are stored and served out via an Open Text database.