Recommended Academic Subject Web Directories

Identifying appropriate subject- and topic-oriented World Wide Web sites to use for research can be improved by using these Web subject directories. All of the Web sites included in each of these subject directories have been reviewed by librarians or others knowledgable of the topic area.

• The Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org/
• BUBL
  http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
• Scirus
  http://www.scirus.com/
• INFOMINE
  http://infomine.ucr.edu/
• The WWW Virtual Library
  http://www.vlib.org/
• Resource Discovery Network
  http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
• Librarians’ Index to the Internet
  http://www.lii.org/
• Statistical Resources on the Web
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
• The Scout Archives
  http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/
• Internet Guide at Britannica Online
  http://0-www.search.eb.com.library.law.suffolk.edu/

Recommended "Deep Web" Directories

The deep web is made up of dynamic pages (e.g., information is presented only when requested), non-textural formats (e.g., multimedia and software) and databases (e.g., commercial and subscription-based). The deep web is also referred to as the "invisible web" because these resources are invisible to spiders used by general search engines or directories such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.

• CompletePlanet
  http://www.completeplanet.com/
• ProFusion
  http://www.profusion.com/index.htm
• CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
• SMEALSearch: Academic Business Literature Digital Library
  http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/index.html/