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General Internet Resources

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 / Australian

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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