The following are some significant reference/portal sites for locating all manner of Internet resources:

1. Reference

The Internet Public Library General/Reference Collection

http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/

A dandy source for all manner of quick reference information from many internet sites.

Refdesk.com

http://www.refdesk.com/

Contains a variety of quick reference features.

Biography.com

http://www.biography.com

A biography encyclopedia.

2. Information Portals

Academic Info

http://www.academicinfo.net/

Gateway to quality educational resources

The Digital Librarian

http://www.digital-librarian.com/

A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.

Infomine

http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?univ

Index to scholarly Internet resource collections

Internet Scout Report

http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Based on a series of newsletters identifying valuable Internet sites.  Has a search
engine to locate sites by keyword.

Librarian's Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

A portal approach to a vast number of subjects in well chosen Internet sites.

Suite 101

http://www.suite101.com/

A "best of the web" site organized by Dewey Decimal Classification

The WWW Virtual Library

http://vlib.org/

A hierarchical approach, sometimes a bit tricky to use.

3. Searchable Library Catalogs

WorldCat:

 http://www.worldcat.org/

Library of Congress searchable catalog:

 http://catalog.loc.gov/

Libdex

http://www.libdex.com/ (For this one, it’s best to click on “Country” index).

4. Directories

Switchboard

http://www.switchboard.com/  (addresses & phone numbers – US plus Yellow Pages)

 Canada 411

http://www.canada411.ca/ (Canadian phone numbers & addresses)

5. Indexes

Ingenta

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ (a general periodical index)

ERIC 

http://www.eric.ed.gov   (index to documents related to education and social issues)

Last Updated February 11, 2008