Google scholar
launches in Beta mode with impressive results. Provides links to
citations, online articles and books with some areas covered better
than others. IS this the end of library databases?
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically
for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses,
books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas
of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of
academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and
universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."