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Reference Directories

  • xrefer
    http://www.xrefer.com/
    Free access to Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers

Academic/Scholarly Directories

  • All Academic
    http://www.allacademic.com/
    Provides scholars and researchers with useful on-line source information about scholarly works. Search by keyword, author, publication title, article title and advanced search
  • The Argus Clearinghouse
    http://www.clearinghouse.net/
    A site which unfortunately is not being updated as of Jan 23rd, 2002. Still allows access to previously added sites, organised in subject area, that have been rated on the following five criteria: Level of Resource Description, Level of Resource Evaluation, Guide Design, Guide Organizational Schemes, Guide Meta-Information providing information as to its content and quality
  • Infomine
    http://infomine.ucr.edu
    Infomine introduces resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It is organised by subject, is searchable and links are provided to alternate searchable keywords, similar to a thesaurus
  • WWW Virtual Library
    http://vlib.org/
    A non-commercial subject catalogue maintained at CERN, the home of the WWW. Includes over 100 subject areas maintained by different organisations over the world. Good for research material
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet
    http://lii.org/
    An annotated directory of material suitable for both academic and general public use

Special Search Engines
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm
A collection of special search engines and searchable directories across a broad range of topic areas.

Search Engine Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Search Engine Colossus provides a geographic or language based collation of search engines.
It is a useful source of region or language specific searches.

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