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INTERNET & NETWORKING: Indexes, Directories and Finding Aids

SELECTED LIBRARY-ORIENTED WWW SERVICES AND GUIDES

BUBL Information Service.
URL: http://bubl.ac.uk/
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides: Topical Guides to Internet Resources.
University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies have produced comprehensive guides to identify and evaluate the quality of Internet resources on a number of topics ranging from cyberpreneurship to statistics to emotional support.
URL: http://www.clearinghouse.net/
IFLANET Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resources.
A listing of Lists-of-Lists and general information about Internet mailing lists.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm
Larry Schankman's Best of the Best in the Social Sciences.
URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/subject.html
Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Created and updated weekly by Carole Leita.
URL: http://lii.org/

SEARCH ENGINE INFORMATION RESOURCES

A selection of Internet search tools.
BelNet (Belgium) provides a ranked list of search tools.
URL: http://www.lib.rug.ac.be/internet/search.html
Koch, Traugott. Literature about search services.
Desire Project.
URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/radar/lit-about-search-services.html
Peterson, Richard E. Eight Internet Search Engines Compared.
FirstMonday, Vol.2 No.2 - February 3rd, 1997.
URL: http://www.firstmonday.dk/
Sullivan, Danny. Search Engine Watch.
URL: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

CURRENT AWARENESS RESOURCES

Cool Site of the Day.
URL: http://cool.infi.net/et/
Hot and Cool on the Web.
URL: http://scribble.com/uwi/reviews-l.html
Net Happenings.
URL: http://www.iteachyou.com/nh.htm
100 Hot Web Sites.
URL: http://www.100hotsites.com/
Scout Report.
Since 1994, the Internet Scout Project has focused on research and development projects that provide better tools and services for finding, filtering and delivering online information and metadata.
URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/
ZIPmouse Internet Directory
ZIPmouse is a Web's Directory with "ZIP to Topic" drop-down menus.
URL: http://www.zipmouse.com/

SUBJECT OR CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY SERVICES

Biotechfind - Biotech Industry Search Engine and Career Center.
URL: http://www.biotechfind.com/
Encyclopedia.com - Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
URL: http://www.encyclopedia.com//
Excite.
Site reviews.
URL: http://www.excite.com/
Lycos.
URL: http://www.lycos.com/
Search Engine Colossus
International directory of search engines.
URL: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Search Power
Index of search engines.
URL: http://www.searchpower.com/
Shareware.com
URL: http://shareware.cnet.com/
YAHOO.
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/
MonkeySweat.
URL: http://www.MonkeySweat.com

AUTOMATED INDEXING SERVICES

ALIWEB.
The Web's Oldest Search Engine - Est. 1993
URL: http://www.aliweb.com/
Alta Vista.
URL: http://www.altavista.com/
DejaNews.
Searches USENET news.
URL: http://www.dejanews.com/
EuroPages.
European search engine. Languages supported: Bulgar, Cesky, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, English, Español, Français, Hrvatski, Ísland, Italiano, Lietuviu, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Português, Polski, Romana, Russkij, Slovensky, Srpski, Svenska, Suomi, Türkçe
URL: http://www.europages.com/
EuroSeek.
European search engine. Languages supported: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano
URL: http://www.euroseek.com/page?ilang=en
FTP Search - AlltheWeb.
AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
URL: http://www.alltheweb.com/
Google.
URL: http://www.google.com/
HotBot.
Powered by Inktomi; supported by WIRED Ventures.
URL: http://www.hotbot.com/
Infoseek Guide.
URL:http://www.masterstech-home.com/
Inktomi.
URL: http://www.inktomi.com
Lycos.
URL: http://www.lycos.com/
MetaCrawler Parallel Web Search Service.
URL: http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
NLightN.
Information service which indexes a wide-variety of sources and databases to create a "Universal Index". Fee-based services provide greater access to certain types of information.
URL: http://www.nlightn.com/
OpenText Index.
URL: http://index.opentext.net/
Reference.com
Reference.COM lets you search for information in over 16,000 Usenet newsgroups and hundreds of publicly-accessible mailing lists.
URL: http://www.reference.com/
Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index.
A listing of technical reports from Indiana University Computer Science Department, many of which are available electronically.
URL: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/Research/techreports/
WebCrawler.
URL: http://www.webcrawler.com/

TELEPHONE AND E-MAIL DIRECTORY SERVICES

Akama Open Business Directory.
URL: http://www.akama.com/
AT&T Directories.
URL: http://www.att.com/directory/
Bigfoot.
Global e-mail directory.
URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/
BigYellow.
U.S. business and residential listings.
URL: http://www.superpages.com/
Infoseek.
E-mail and business directories are available.
URL: http://infoseek.go.com/
Infospace People Search.
U.S. and Canada personal and business telephone listings.
URL: http://www.infospace.com/
Internet Address Finder.
URL: http://www.iaf.net/
Internet 800 Directory.
The Internet 800 Directory is a toll free directory that lists any 800 or 888 telephone number free and regardless of long distance carrier.
URL: http://inter800.com/search.htm
LookSmart
Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications.
URL: http://www.findarticles.com/
SearchAmerica.
URL: http://www.searchamerica.com/
The Ultimate White Pages.
U.S. telephone listings.
URL: http://www.theultimates.com/white/
The Ultimate Yellow Pages.
U.S. business telephone listings.
URL: http://www.theultimates.com/yellow/
World Email Directory.
URL: http://www.worldemail.com/
World Telecom Directories. (Fax Directory)
Searchable database containing fax numbers of businesses and government agencies worldwide.
URL: http://www.info-lab.com/wtx/
YAHOO People Search.
E-mail and home page searches.
URL: http://people.yahoo.com/
YellowNet.
U.S. business listings.
URL: http://www.yellow-net.com/

SELECTED GATEWAYS TO OTHER INTERNET SERVICES

Monster FTP Sites List.
URL: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ftp/
WHOIS Search (Internic).
URL: http://www.internic.net/whois.html
WHOIS Search.
WHOIS Search provides domain name registration information by domain names, IP addresses and/or NIC handle.
URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
The WWW to Finger Gateway.
URL: http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/gateway/
X.500 Directory Services.
URL: http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisap/ccsap/Directory/x500.html