Online searching of parasitology literature.

To keep abreast of the expanding literature on parasitology is virtually a such full-time pursuit of source literature becomes impossible with other commitments, encouraging recourse to secondary sources such as abstracting journals, Current Contents, and even Parasitology Today. Another approach - increasingly used since its faltering introduction in the 1970s- involves online searching of computerized databases. Here, John Eyers and Angela Taylor review the application of such systems to parasitology.