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Subject directories are human-created indexes of the web. Web pages are categorized by hand into predefined subjects, usually by volunteers. Many also have paid or volunteer editors who help select the best of these pages. This means that the pages which are indexed are often of high quality and very relevant. However, because subject directories depend on humans to do the indexing, they are unable to effectively keep up with the growth of the web, so it may be difficult to find a specific page. To do that, you may want to try a search engine. DMOZ Open Directory Project The Open Directory mission is to become the largest human-edited subject directory on the Internet by harnessing the power of a large number of volunteer editors. Operating on a system of checks and balances to ensure quality, DMOZ is free to all users. EuroSeek Available in 40 languages, including English, Spanish, German, and Esperanto, EuroSeek is a subject directory catering to European web browsers. INFOMINE INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library is a project from the University of Michican School of Information, and offers a staggering amount of well-organized information sources, including reference materials (dictionaries, encyclopedias), subject collections from all areas of knowledge, and special collections (including literary criticism, Presidents of the United States, Native American authors and more). Internet Scout Project From the site: “The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 16,969 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists.” Librarians' Index to the Internet "Information you can trust" is the motto of this subject directory, created as an authoritative, yet large, index of worthwhile more than 10,000 sites chosen, reviewed, categorized and annotated by librarians. Yahoo! Launched in 1994, this general-purpose subject directory is one of the most well known. Web links are categorized by topic. To find information, you can browse among successively broader or narrow topics, or search by keyword. Page Coordinator: Kimberly Clarke clark078@tc.umn.edu This URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=674 |