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: INTERNET--Searching--Subjects
- December Top 5 Subjects: the top five Web subject resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/subject.html)
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Yahoo WWW Directories: This is Yahoo's subcategory on WWW directories; includes links to subject-oriented directories on the Web (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Directories/)
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- A2Z: descriptions of most popularly linked sites in the Lycos database arranged by subjects (http://a2z.lycos.com)
- Argus Clearinghouse: The site formerly known as The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides at the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan; new site now the Argus Clearinghouse, offering a large selection of guides to Internet resources in a variety of categories (http://www.clearinghouse.net)
- Cyberstacks: a collection of Web and Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme, organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description; resources incorporated are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services, all listed resources are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/)
- Galaxy: a service of EINet, a collection of information, searchable via index or by topic trees (http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html)
- Gopher Jewels: a collection of subject-oriented gophers (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html)
- INFOMINE: a tree of annotated and indexed Internet resources on biology, agriculture, medicine, government, maps, physical sicnes, engineering, computing, math, social sicne, humanities, visual and performing arts, instructional resources, and Internet enabling tools, from the University Library, University of California, Riverside (http://lib-www.ucr.edu)
- InterNIC Dir of Dirs: InterNIC's Directory of Directories, subject-oriented listing of registered Internet resources and services (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html)
- IWT Narrative: Internet Web Text's narrative about subject-oriented searching (http://www.december.com/web/text/nar-subject.html)
- Magellan McKinley Directory: includes star ratings for resources (http://www.mckinley.com)
- Point Communications: a guide to Web resources with ratings (http://www.pointcom.com)
- Starting Point: a subject-breakdown of the Net (http://www.stpt.com)
- Study Carrels: Subject and Discipline-Specific Internet Resources, from North Carolina State University Library (http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/disciplines/index.html)
- Top of the Web: a selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories, including science, humanities, news, business, lookup tools, marketing, money, computers, software, art, humanities, and others (http://www.december.com/web/top.html)
- USENET Periodic Postings: list of Usenet periodic postings (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/)
- USENET repository: collection of FAQ's and files from Usenet newsgroups (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/)
- USENET news.answers: a hypertext presentation of the answer lists posted in the news.answers newsgroup (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/)
- Xplore: the motto is less is more; this is a selected subject tree of twenty categories; makes a nice exploration of an eclectic mix of some of the more interesting sites on the web (http://www.xplore.com)
- Yahoo: Yet Another Hierarchically Odiferous Oracle, an extendible collection of subjects (http://www.yahoo.com)
- Yanoff: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject (http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html)
- WebCrawler Select: selected sites in a range of subject areas (http://www.webcrawler.com)
- WWW VL: World Wide Web Virtual Library, a large hypertext collection of information organized by subject (http://www.w3.org/vl/)
- WWW VL/LOC: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library viewed as US Library of Congress Classification (http://www.w3.org/vl/LibraryOfCongress.html)
Searching by subject is one of the main ways that you might try to locate information on the Internet. Subject libraries are among the oldest kinds of repositories for information on the Internet. Not all follow a strict scheme for breaking down subjects; most also provide some sort of search facility for their own database.
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