Introduction.

Science is the product of cumulative gains in knowledge that have slowly built up over millennia to reach the present ever increasing crescendo of research results. However, due to this cumulative nature, scientists cannot participate in meaningful science and education if they do not have the resources to determine where existing knowledge stops and the unknown starts. The present internet can both be a source of useful soft scientific information; as well as a signpost to probe this grey area of known and unknown without the requirement for an elaborate, expensive library and reference system.

Thus scientists without access to a quality library system and/or unable to access the internet are effectively discriminated again in being able to participate in scientific research.