The staggering surge of scholarly research publications astounds. There are at least 25,000 professional journals in existence in the western world. Typically, these periodicals publish four issues a year, with seven articles per issue on average. The result is more than 500,000 articles published annually. Add to that figure the many thousands of chapters and several hundred more major textbooks published each year and soon a most challenging dilemma arises: How can the threat of information overload be effectively managed? One proven answer is LegacyRefs.

There is an apt adage about information technology that bears repeating: "It's not what you know; it's where to find it." These days the task of reigning in the information onslaught is becoming overwhelming. There is simply so much knowledge moving too quickly. The information onslaught that faces graduate students, researchers, and professors is fast becoming daunting and defying. The threat, of course, is ever-growing discontent and even disinterest as the disconnect between reader and research continues to worsen. Thus, the key is to know where to look for what you don't know but need to find out.

At the same time, a recent University of Michigan study found that "first and second-year undergraduates spend an average of 10 hours each week online, and 18% spend at least 20 hours online." Published in Cyber-psychology and behaviour, the study - “Internet Addiction on Campus: the Vulnerability of College Students” -- calls this Internet addiction on campus a “rapidly growing epidemic". One partial answer for students and researchers to this obsessive devotion to 'Net surfing is LegacyRefs. Where information collection and management are concerned, LegacyRefs helps get the job done easier, faster, and far more efficiently.

LegacyRefs solves the problem. Truly. LegacyRefs is a searchable, editable, annotative database of the most often quoted research references, each coded to reflect the content it addresses. Our work has not been "fugacious!" Indeed, more than 5 years of research convinces us that there is nothing even remotely like LegacyRefs -- anywhere, at least prior to 1999!
         We are so confident of that statement that we will give you a copy of LegacyRefs gratis if you prove us wrong. (Be the first we acknowledge to prove us wrong and we will also send you a check for at least $1000!)

• Need books by Skinner? OK, search LegacyRefs for 'Skinner' and '#(34)' (the code for books).
• Looking for often-quoted research on FC? OK, search LegacyRefs for 'facilita commu' (unique textstrings for facilitative communication).
• What about legal works on behavior modification? OK, search LegacyRefs using textstrings 'behavior modi' and '#(40)' (the code for law journals).
• What about research published on peer-tutoring in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis or Child Development? No worries, search LegacyRefs for 'peer' AND 'Journal of Applied Behavior An' OR 'Child Development'.
• Need to write a paper on stuttering? OK, search LegacyRefs for 'stutter' and '#(32)' (code for review articles).
• Need to conduct most any search of the top literature ... at home, in your office, or relaxing during a sports event, talk show, or whatever? No worries: That is precisely the purpose of your LegacyRefs Assistant.
• Need reference citations that are accurate? (You would not believe the number of references cited with incorrect year, volume #, edition, or page spreads!) LegacyRefs!
  
• Need a dissertation topic or publication starting point? LegacyRefs!
• Need annotations for existing refs or your own additions? Type or use a hand-scanner to SCAN in the information in the handy annotation box available for each entry in LegacyRefs!