Commercial DBs over the 'net

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>The view from some Iowa reference librarians...
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> the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) is still not really ready on the Net and
>> it won't be until end of 96, early
>>97.
>>Federal Register is great on GPO, good search engine. 
>>You still have to sift alot if you've got a subject and don't
>>have a date or page number but I guess that wouldn't be
>>much easier in paper.
>>There are still reasons to get paper FR as there is for every
>>paper reference - more than one person can use it at a
>>time which is not possible with an electronic format if you
>>just have one workstation, etc.
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>> Personally I wouldn't drop the
>>CFR until I saw the final online product.  The last time I
>>tried to use what they do have online for CFR a citation
>>search was useless.
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>Gerry Rowland
>Iowa
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