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Subject Guides, Portals and Starting Points
See also the Search Engines Resource
Guide or the Reference
and Research Tools page.
Listed below are a range of guides that provide subject guides to Internet
resources
Overseas
- About.com - hundreds of Internet
Guides by prepared by subject specialists
- AlphaSearch
- access Internet "gateway" sites
- Argus Clearinghouse
- value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate
Internet-based information resources
- Brittanica Internet Guide -
general subject guide
- BUBL Link - selected Internet
resources covering al subject areas
- CEO Express! - a portal
of news, finance, business, and commentary sites, which offers an
overview of what's available for the business user
- December.com
- the top five sites annotated on a wide range of subjects
- Galileo Internet
resources
- Google Web Directory
- uses theOpen Directory data
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource
Collections - the Libraries of the University of California
- Internet
Resources - National Library of Australia
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- LookSmart - general, popular
web directory
- Magellan Internet Guide
- from the Excite search engine
- Navigator
- "... the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for
forays into the Web. Its primary intent was to give reporters and
editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of
journalistic functions".
- NetRef: The Internet
Reference Library - Provides a quick and easy pathway to resources
such as dictionaries, atlases, directories, almanacs, search engines,
and leads to in-depth scholarly resources
- Open Directory Project - also available
in Google, Alta
Vista, HotBot, Lycos
- PINAKES:
links to major UK subject gateways
- Power Reporting Bookmarks
- resources for journalists
- Research Central - "...
a free, central starting point for anyone doing research on the Internet"
- Resource Central
- "...useful resources, references and informational links"
- Scout Report Signpost
- "Contains only the best Internet resources, as chosen by the editorial
staff of the Scout Report, which have been cataloged (sic)and organized
for efficient browsing and searching." Over 6,000 report summaries
available
- Snap.com - general, popular web
directory
- Study Web - 120,000+ research
quality resources
- Subject
Access to Internet Information - Australian National University
Library
- Top Humanities
Websites - "An overview of some of the top Internet sites in the
areas of literature, history, foreign languages, and art history"
- Virtual
Reference Sites - Links to "over 2,500 of the most popular reference
sites on the Internet"
- VitalSource - "The Journalist's
Starting Point." "... a journalist's first source on researching major
issues in science, statistics and social science"
- World Wide Web Virtual Library
- "... the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality
guides to particular sections of the web"
- WWWomen - The Premier Search
Directory for Women Online
- Yahoo - the popular general
subject directory
Australian
See also the Australian search engines from the Search
Engines page.
Australian
Subject Gateways to Internet Resources
Beyond the Black
Stump
Aussieseek Search Directory
Electronic Australiana - a
range of Australian major web guides from the National Library of Australia
Guide to Australia
- from Charles Sturt University
Guide to Internet Information
sources for Australian journalists
LookSmart Australia - a
large subject collection of Australian sites
OzSearch : a large subject
collection of Australian sites
Sofcom Directories
- "...over 40,000 selected Australian web sites"
Subject gateways
to the disciplines - "provides access to some of the best Australian
resources that are available on the World Wide Web." From the Australian
Libraries Gateway
Yahoo Australia and NZ: a large
subject collection of Australian sites
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