A personal literature database can be a significant help in organizing references for planning, interpreting, and reporting research. This is especially useful if means are available for extracting listings from comprehensive databases and if selected references can be incorporated automatically into manuscripts. We report an integrated database system in operation in our laboratory. While the system we describe is for a chemistry database and certain of the sources discussed are specifically chemistry sources the system is applicable to any discipline. Our system is Macintosh based but the software involved is also available for IBM compatible personal computers. The current core of the system is the database management and bibliography generation program, EndNote Plus from Niles and Associates, with input through Current Contents and Chemical Abstracts.