Abstract
This paper is an update of a presentation given by Rick Noble on 28 February, 1996 at the National Federation of Abstracters and Indexers (NFAIS) Annual Conference. It describes three major initiatives that OCLC has undertaken during the past two years to make information on the Internet more accessible to its members and users. These are: (1) InterCat, an experimental effort to catalog Internet resources using OCLC's traditional cooperative model, (2) NetFirst, a commercial product that is built and marketed like a traditional abstract and index (A&I) database and (3) PURLs, or Persistent Uniform Resource Locators.
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