General
Australian
- National Library of Australia subject gateways
NLA web site providing a source of selected, high quality Australian, national and subject related internet resources.
International
- BUBL information service
BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources in a wide range of subject areas. Initially designed as a resource for librarians, it includes a directory of UK organisations and institutions, job postings, usergroup links, surveys and comprehensive archives. BUBL provides links to current editions of all major UK newspapers, as well as abstracts and selected full text from over 200 journals.
- Librarians' Internet Index
A searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users. The site features an extensive directory of clickable subject topics. Users can also locate relevant web sites by using a detailed subject heading index or by using the keyword search box. Also offers a free e-mail subscription to a current awareness service which features short annotations to the top 20 web resources added each week.
- Pinakes: a subject launchpad
Provides access to Internet resources, by linking to the major subject gateways. Includes links to resources on art, chemistry, libraries, education, and other topics.
- E-Print network
Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. It is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines.
- WWW Virtual Library
Catalog of Internet resources. Indexes cover a broad range of subject areas. Each entry within a subject area links to the appropriate Internet resource and is accompanied by a brief description and a relevancy ranking.
- Yahoo!
Provides a browsable subject list, as well as a search facility.
Social Sciences and Humanities
Australian
- ATUA
An online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history. It has been designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, particularly trade unions, from the late nineteenth century to today.
- Australian literature gateway
Provides authoritative information on over 400,000 works of creative and critical Australian literature - published in a range of print and electronic sources - relating to more than 65,000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present day.
- Federation gateway
The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway has been created to aid in the location of a wide variety of materials like books, web sites, pictures and manuscripts relating to the Federation of Australia.
- Picture Australia
(from 18th Century-)
This web site features images from the collections of leading Australian cultural institutions from the late eighteenth century through to the present. It provides a gateway to images from its own collection and those of the Australian War Memorial, the State Library of New South Wales, and the State Library of Victoria. Users can search the centralised index for their subject of interest, view thumbnails or the larger version of the image.
- WebLaw
WebLaw is a cooperative subject gateway to Internet resources for Australian legal researchers. Law librarians from the participating organisations have taken responsibility for a particular subject area or areas and provide annotated records for quality Internet legal resources in each area.
International
- HUSSARR
The French HUSSARR site is a subject gateway to information resources in the study of French humanities and social studies (excluding law). Searching is by author, title, subject and keyword.
- Infomine
A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
- intute: social sciences
(from 1998-)
A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
- Voice of the Shuttle
Made publicly accessible in 1995, this site began as an introduction to the Web for humanists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources in the humanities and associated disciplines.
Biological Sciences and Medicine
Australian
- Australian Government agriculture portal
This portal allows all government clients to access agricultural government information and services.
- Environment portal
The Environment Portal provides access to online services and information provided by Commonwealth, State and Local Governments. Information is organised by seven broad environmental themes - Atmosphere, Biodiversity, Coasts and Oceans, Environment Protection, Heritage, Inland Waters, and Land.
- HEALTHInsite
This site provides access to a wide range of Australian up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma.
- Science portal
Commonwealth government web site providing science information and services to industry, investors and the research community. Includes links to relevant research fields.
International
- BIOME
Web site providing access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the health and life sciences. Options include using the search box for Internet resources in the whole of the health and life sciences, or using one of the five subject-specific gateways.
- CancerNet
A comprehensive gateway to recent and accurate information from the National Cancer Institute (U.S.), covering: types of cancer, treatment options, clinical trials, genetics, causes and risk factors, support resources and a dictionary of terminology.
- Genome gateway
This web site is a special section of the Nature Genome gateway. It provides free access to Nature Publishing Group genome material.
- Infomine
A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
- National Library of Medicine gateway
This gateway is a service that permits simultaneous searchs in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is being developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Netting the evidence
ScHarr web site intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals.
Physical Sciences and Engineering
International
- Infomine
A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
- Intute
An online service providing access to Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write descriptions of the resources.
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