Directories
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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