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.
- For search engines, see the Search Engines page.
- For descriptions and evaluations of the features of various directories and engines, see Evaluation of Web Directories and Search Engines
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 Help—FAQ—Features – http://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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A+ Research & Writing for high school and college students was created by Kathryn L. Schwartz