Contribution to a thematic issue devoted to the assessment of the real value of the Internet for scholarly research. Focuses on the status of the Internet for scholarly research in the field of education on the eve of the millennium, highlighting several categories of resources: commercial databases, government and educational association Web sources, and speciality Web pages. After a brief speculation concerning the possible future of Internet and World Wide Web information in future educational research and scholarly activities, concludes with a Webliography of the Internet sites highlighted in the article.