Subject Directories
(UC Berkeley – Teaching Library Internet Workshops)
www.lii.org – Librarians’ Index – over 16, 000 web sties complied by public librarians in information supply business. Highest quality sites only. Great, reliable annotations.Infomine.ucr.edu – InFomine – Over 120,000 sites. Great, reliable annotations. Cooperatively complied by university and college-level academic librarians of the UC campuses.
www.academicinfo.us – Academic Info – Rich selection of about 25,000 pages, slected as “college and research level Internet sources” aimed at “the undergraduate lever or above.” Brief annotations.
www.about.com – About.com – Over 2 million sites. Generally good annotations done by “Guides” with various levels of expertise.
Directory.google.com – Google Directory – About 5 million web pages, selected by the Open Directory Project and enhanced by Google searching and ranking. Often useful to fine “better” results, especially on broad or widely covered topics.
Dir.yahoo.com – Yahoo! – About 4 million. Scarce descriptions and annotations. Often useful, especially for popular and commercial topics.