Directories

A directory is a set of hyperlinks to web sites that has been compiled by a human, usually a subject specialist. Directories can cover serious subjects and topics, be for hobbies and interests...anything. They can be quicker ways of finding useful and relevant authoritative material than using a search engine, as the links will be very relevant to the subject.

The Librarian's index to the Internet. Highly recommended by many in the Search field, not just librarians.

  The DMOZ Open Directory Project is a giant volunteer-run gateway to any topic. Volunteers find good websites and then list them here under the best description for each site.

Victoria online. Gateway to official and governmental resources for Victoria.

Victoria's Virtual Library. Excellent collection of online resources, of use to anyone. In terms of research, the current topics of interest can be an excellent beginning source of information.

The Internet Public Library. Maintained by the School of Information, University of Michigan. It has helpful information for younger users.

Academic Info. Your gateway to quality educational resources. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory tailored toward a college and university audience and is used by students, librarians and researchers.

BUBL Information Service. Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. It's a directory, arranged in the Dewey Decimal system which many libraries use to store books on shelves in categories.

Infomine. Infomine, scholarly internet resource collections - by the Library of the University of California, Riverside.

PINAKES. “In ancient times, the Library of Alexandria was seen as a universal store of human knowledge. As the Library grew in size, however, it became increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The poet Callimachus solved the problem by compiling a catalogue called The Pinakes. On a far smaller scale, these Web pages hope to provide a similar function for Internet resources, by linking to the major subject gateways.”

Resource Discovery Network. A set of non-commercial subject gateways.

DOAJ - The Directory of open access journals. "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1527 journals in the directory".

A list of journals, gathered by Jan Szczepanski. Bigger than DOAJ above, but not always full-text or peer-reviewed (or both). Excellent for foreign and foreign language sources.

Scirus, the science-specific search engine. Covers scientific, technical and medical-specific articles and sites, covering some 167 million Web pages and more than 18 million full-text articles and abstracts. (ITI NewsLink Dec 2004)

SmealSearch. Academic level business materials.

Project Gutenberg. "Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 13,000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use (for complete details, see the license page)".

Medical student. This extremely comprehensive website by Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D. will help "all students of medicine".

Medline Plus. List of medical journals from a famous organisation.

CorporateInformation: source for global corporate information on the leading companies in over 55 countries.

Swinburne University of Technology Library Fantastic library web pages, with clearly laid out resources.

State Library of Victoria To search the largest library in the State. They also have a number of links to organisations that may prove useful, such as Associations based on certain topics like Health, Local history and so on.

National Library of Australia Of great use due to the collections available. As well as scholarly papers covering diverse topics, there are also picture archives of many facets of Australia.

CIA: The World Factbook. The CIA has data on every country in the world, from maps to economic statistics, languages, religion and more.

The SBS World Guide , a great alternative to the CIA Factbook.

Complete Planet Complete Planet is a web site that allows a user to search the Deep Web. 

Newspapers from around the world? Go to world-newspapers.com.

Australian Museum Fact Sheets All sorts of information.

Encyclopedia of Life The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth.

Picture Australia This collaborative site by many libraries, museums and other organisations allows you to search for pictures / images to do with all aspects of Australia and Australians over the years. Useful for students, historians, genealogists, environmentalists etc.

  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. As well as their own information, they also present many handy links.

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