General Subject Directories

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• ***** Academic Info - Directory. Can browse 25,000 hand-picked links on 15 subjects (area & countries studies, the arts, biological sciences, business, digital library, education, engineering, health & medicine, history, the humanities, law & government, library & info science, religion, sciences, social sciences, etc.). Has a reference desk (find it on the Internet, subject directories, search engines), test prep resources, information on degree programs, etc.



• ***** Librarians' Internet Index - Directory. Can search, browse over 20,000 links in 14 categories (the arts & humanities, business, computers, education, government, health, law, media, people, regional, science, society & social science, etc.).



• 2RSS.com - Directory. Can search, browse links in 8 categories (Weblogs [personal, computer], computer & Internet, news, regional, business, companies, etc.).



• About - Directory. Can search, browse 1 million links on 50,000 subjects & 475 guides by professionals. Has 24 channels (arts & literature, business, cities & towns, omputing & technology, education, entertainment, food & drink, health & fitness, homework help, jobs & careers, money, news & issues, parenting & family, people & relations, religion & spirituality, travel, etc.).



• Alexa - Search engine & directory. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Browsable directory of human-selected links has 16 categories (the arts, business, computers, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society, world, etc.). Has a Top 500 Sites, etc.



• Answers.com - Directory. Can search, browse editor-selected answers to questions in 9 categories (geography, people, business, history, science, entertainment, nutrition, computers, products). Uses natural language questioning.



• AOL Search - Directory. Can search, browse editor-selected & sponsored links in 16 categories (arts & entertainment, business, computers & Internet, health, recreation, reference, regional, science & technology, society & culture, travel, etc.).



• Best of the Web - Directory. Can search, browse links in 12 categories (arts, business, computers, health, news, regional, science, society, etc.



• BUBL - Directory. Can search, browse over 12,000 links by Dewey Decimal Classification, 50 subjects, 125 counties, 27 types (biographies, book & text collections, dictionaries, image collections, proceedings, etc.).



• CataList - Directory. The official catalog of LISTSERV lists. Can search, browse, get host site information on over 48,900 public listservs out of 325,400 listservs.



• Chordata - Directory. Can search, browse RSS & Atom links in 12 categories (arts & humanities, business, entertainment, health, news, politics & government, reference, regional, science & technology, social science, society & culture, etc.).



• Complete Planet - Directory. Can search, browse over 70,000 searchable databases & specialty search engines in 42 categories (arts & design, business, computing & Internet, education, family, economics & finance, food & drink, government, health, humanities, jobs & career, law, literature, magazines & journals, media & entertainment, music, news, newspapers, people, places, politics, recreation, reference, regional, religion, science, search engines, social sciences, travel, weather, etc.). Has a list of deep Web databases.



• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web - Directory. Can browse links in over 80 categories (African-Americans; archives & manuscripts; art; audio, video, multimedia; business & finance; computers & technology; education; etexts & primary sources; health & medicine; history; Judaism; literature; music; politics; psychology; reference; social sciences; science; Web page design; etc.).



• Direct Search - Directory. Can search, browse 800 links to 800 search interfaces (deep Web, etc.) on 14 topics (archives & library catalogs, government [U.S. & international], humanities, news sources & serials, bibliographies/bibliographical aides, social sciences, business/economics, legal, reference, science, etc.).



• Gardening Launch Pad, The - Directory. Can browse over 5,100 links.



• Google Directory - Can search, browse human-selected links in 16 categories (arts, business, computers, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society, world, etc.).



• Harley Hahn's Master List of Usenet Newsgroups - Directory. Can search, browse lists in 17 categories (art & cration, computers, entertainment, health, humanities & social sciences, information & learning, Internet, money & business, people & society, science, technology, etc.).



• iBoogie Web Directory - An iBoogie directory. Can search, browse human-selected links powered by the Open Directory Project (ODP) in 17 categories (arts, business, computers, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society, world, etc.).



• Intute - Directory. Can search, browse over 113,500 links on Science, Engineering and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences. Includes &/or sponsors the Engineering e-journals search engine, Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM), Virtual Training Suite.



• IPL (The Internet Public Library) - Directory. Can search, browse links in subject collections (the arts & humanities; business & economics; computers & Internet; education; entertainment & leisure; health & medical sciences; law, government, political science; regional & country information; science & technology; social sciences; Reference, a reading room (IPL Books Collection, IPL Magazines, IPL Newspapers), searching tools, youth resources, special collections (IPL Literary Criticism Collection, etc.).



• JoeAnt - Directory. Can search, browse links in 16 categories selected by human volunteers (the arts & humanities, business, computers, education, entertainment, health & fitness, people & society, science & technology, travel, etc.).



• Lawyers.com - A subsidiary of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Has a directory of lawyers & basic consumer legal information. Let's you find, ask, contact lawyers.



• Looksmart - Directory. Can search, browse links in thousands of categories. Covers computing, entertainment, home & family, reference & education, regional, science & health, society & politics, travel, work & money.



• NewsDirectory - Directory. Can search, browse over 17,000 links to mostly free English-language news media (enewspapers, TV stations, college & government enewspapers, etc.).



• Newsletter Access - Directory. Can search, browse over 9,500 links in 19 categories.



• NewsLink - Directory. Can search, browse links to over 3,000 enewspapers worldwide & to U.S. radio/TV sites.



• Open Directory Project (ODP) - Directory. Can search, browse 4 million links in 16 categories selected by human volunteers (the arts, business, computers, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society, world, etc.).



• Scout Report, The - Directory. A cumulative weekly selection of new Internet resources with archives of over 13,200 annotations back to 1997.



• Search Engine Colossus - Directory. Can search, browse links to search engines in 340 countries & territories.



• TILE.NET - Directory. Can search, browse over 31,000 discussion & information lists, Usenet news, ftp sites, computer product vendors, Internet & Web design companies.



• Topica - Directory. Was Liszt. Can search, browse, start &/or join thousands of email newsletters & discussion groups in over 15 categories (art & design, developers, health & fitness, Internet, music, news & information, finance, small business, software, travel & leisure, etc.).



• Virtual Learning Resources Center (VLRC) - Directory. Can search, browse (by Dewey Decimal Classification); Librarians' Internet Index; IPL (The Internet Public Library); BUBL; Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web; Awesome Library, etc.



• Yahoo Search Directory - Can search, browse over 3 million human-selected links in 12 categories (the arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, health, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society).



• Yakeo - Directory. Can browse over 2,000 search engines & directories in 8 categories (countries, science, religion, music, software, hardware, business, sports).