The National Poultry Infobase (NPI) will provide reliable, readily accessible information to aid the user to make informed decisions. The NPI is intended to be a repository of the most current and applicable literature on numerous subjects. It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain assistance and reliable and easily understood information on poultry topics.The NPI project has been in the planning stage since 1996, and editorial committees have been formed. The editorial committees in each of more than 20 subject areas will review literature for the most comprehensive, up-to-date materials. Committees comprise expert volunteers in several specialty areas.The NPI will be a product of The ADDS (Agricultural Databases for Decision Support) Center, Inc., a non-profit organization that has created popular Dairy, Pig, Beef, and Sheep Infobases. The NPI will provide full-text, expert-selected articles providing information ranging from the basic through the latest technology and research findings. The NPI will be available on the World Wide Web (Web) and on Web-enabled CD-ROM disks (CD).A demonstration NPI CD was used to show the powerful information retrieval capabilities of the NPI. The plan for funding the completion and maintenance of the NPI, based on the previous ADDS Infobases, was presented.