Searching the Internet for information, for use in everyday life, school, university
or work can present difficulties when faced with the millions of hits
produced by Search Engines like Google.
For an alternative to the automated, sometimes meaningless results
of Search Engines, see our links below:
| General Web Directories |
| Yahoo Directory |
Directory of the Web, including categories such as Health, Recreation, Sport, Arts, Education, Regional, Science etc. |
| Dmoz |
An 'open directory' of Web sites categorised into subject areas. Use the search box on the right to quickly search Dmoz for Web sites or follow the Dmoz.org link to browse the directory by subject. |
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| The WWW Virtual Libary |
General portal to subject-based Web sites. |
| Academic / Educational |
| BUBL |
A directory of Web resources arranged using the Dewey library classification system. |
| Cyberstacks |
A directory of Web resources arranged using the Library of Congress classification scheme. |
| Intute |
Directory of web resources evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. |
| Librarian's Internet Index |
'Websites you can trust' - a directory of 20,000 Web sites maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 sub-topics. |
| NEWI Directory of Internet Gateways to Subject areas |
Directory of Information Gateways to academic subject areas such as Health, IT, Sciences, Environment, Arts and Humanities. |
| Encyclopaedia |
| Artcycolpedia |
Art encycolpedia - a multimedia resource on past and present artists, including access to 180,000 works of art. |
| Wikipedia |
Free online encyclopaedia available in several languages. |
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| E-books |
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts |
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
| Project Gutenberg |
Large collection of full-text books, including fiction / non-fiction, classic literature and non-commercial books. |
| Wikisource |
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications including fiction and non-fiction in many languages. |
| CELT |
CELT (the Corpus of Electronic Texts) provides over 900 Irish contemporary and historical documents.. |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare |
A searchable collection of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. |
| The Humanities Text Initiative |
Collection of classic e-books hosted by the University of Michigan. |
| International Children's Digital Library |
Project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children's books. |
| National Academies Press |
The National Academies Press (NAP) provides around 3000 academic texts from major universities. |
| United Nations University Press |
Provides full-text publications on sustainability and land management. |
| University of Virginia E-texts |
Over 2,100 publicly-available e-books from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center. |
| Multimedia, video, audio and other media archives |
| The Internet Archive |
A huge database of downloadable / viewable content, including: copyright-free video and film, e-texts, audio and music, computer software and education resources such as lecture materials. The archive also contains a snapshot of previous versions of the Web. |
| Maps |
| Multimap |
Free interactive maps. |
| Google Earth |
Includes maps, satellite imagery, terrain and 3D buildings. |
| Dictionaries |
| Wiktionary |
Free, searchable, multi-language dictionary. |
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Searchable online dictionary hosted by the University of Chicago. |
| Roget's Thesaurus |
Searchable online thesaurus hosted by the University of Chicago. |
| Foldoc dictionary of computing |
A searchable dictionary of terms from computing and related fields. |
| Library Catalogues |
| Copac |
Searchable database for books, journals and other media items, covering
major UK & Irish university libraries plus the British Library and other
UK National Libraries.Use the Copac link, or use the search form on the right to search Copac directly. |
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| Worldcat |
Free book, article and media (DVD, audio etc.) database to discover loanable items in local libraries across the world. |
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| Archives |
| The Archives Hub |
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. |
| E-Zines |
| NEWI directory of E-Zines |
Directory of online journals / magazines on a wide range of subjects, arranged by subject category. |
| Software |
| Open Office |
Full Office suite, entirely free and compatible with Microsoft Office, includes a Wordprocessor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics applications etc. |
| SourceForge |
Large database of Open Source (free) software, arranged by categories / sub-categories. |
| Privacy Tools |
Access to a wide range of communications software providing security and privacy for users. |
| Librarianship and Information |
| CPLIS (Sheffield University information research centre) Reports |
A collection of reports by this research centre (Centre for the Public Library and Information in Society). |
| E-Lis (E-Prints in library and Information Science) |
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. |
| UKOLN |
A centre of expertise in digital information management based at Bath University, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. |
| LISU |
LISU is an internationally renowned research and information centre for library and information services, based in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University. |
| Libr.org |
General portal to progressive LIS related groups and Web sites. |
| Libcom |
Left wing cultural archive and news portal. |
| Librarians for Peace |
Document archive drawn from the anti-war movement. |
| Progressive Librarians Around the World |
A directory of left-wing library oganisations. |
| Links to radical and progressive librarianship and information Web sites |
A page of links to progressive library and information related Web sites on the ISC Web site. |
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