Toss Out the Index Cards 1

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Index cards are out of the question when Peter B. Woodbury writes a research paper. Mr. Woodbury, a research associate in the crop- and soil-sciences department at Cornell University, is an environmental scientist whose work centers on developing computerized models of such phenomena as climate change and the effects of air pollution.

Since he relies on environmental data reported in a myriad of others' studies, any paper he writes includes hundreds, if not thousands, of citations of