The example I used as a search topic for the Fall 1996 edition of Bio182 was Archaea:

• General Considerations
• Beginning Archaea
• Dictionary definitions
• Periodical Abstracts Online
• Web resources
• Annual Reviews
• About Primary Literature
• FirstSearch: BioDigest
• FirstSearch: AGRICOLA
• FirstSearch: BasicBIOSIS 1
• FirstSearch: BasicBIOSIS 2
• UnCover
• Lexis/Nexis
• NSF Awards database