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Links for Research—Web Directories

Use the tools on this page when you’re doing a broad search to get an overview of a subject and when you want to find out what kind of internet resources are available in a particular topic area. Search engines, though some also contain subject directories, are not listed here.

Note: the links below take you further down on this page.

Major Web directories
Other collections of subject-classified links

Major Web directories

The Internet Public Library Subject Collections
/div/subject/
Long list of subject-classified links, annotated by librarians. Some of the classifications are: Education, Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology, Computers & Internet, Business, Law & Government.
Open Directory
https://dmoz-odp.org/
Created and maintained by volunteers, Open Directory is “the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.” There is a special category with information for Teens.
Help – http://dmoz.org/help/helpmain.html
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
Huge database of subject-classified sites with helpful annotations written by staff.
Search help – http://search.yahoo.com/search/help?
Info – links to HelpFAQFeatureshttp://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/

Other collections of subject-classified links

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections — (U California, Riverside)
http://crl.du.ac.in/Social%20Sicence%20Resources/Welcome%20to%20INFOMINE%20Scholarly%20Internet%20Resource%20Collections.htm
23,000+ subject classified links to internet sites with valuable information for students and scholars.
Librarians’ Internet Index
http://crl.du.ac.in/Social%20Sicence%20Resources/Librarians%27%20Internet%20Index%20–%20Society%20and%20Social%20Sciences.htm
A directory of more than 10,000 websites selected by librarians with public library users in mind.
My Virtual Reference Desk – Table of Contents
by Bob Drudge
http://www.refdesk.com/toc.html
Long list of links on popular and current events topics as well as more scholarly sites.
Scout Toolkit – InterNIC Net Scout
https://scout.wisc.edu/
Archive of subject-based resource links.

 

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