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Reference Below are professionally developed web sites that link to useful Internet resources. Many of these sites have created "virtual reference" collections of electronic dictionaries, almanacs, directories, thesauri, maps and other basic reference works that are available on the Internet. Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Internet Resources A subject directory of Internet resources tailored to college and university libraries. The site is divided into the following sections: Subject Index, Search Page, Reference Desk, Student Center, and Comments and Suggestions. The Reference Desk is divided into two parts: Gateways, which includes links to guides, search engines, directories, encyclopedias and almanacs, and Pathfinders, which include links to language, world, United Sates, health, medicine, space, publishing, news, people, weather, and money sites. Access America For Students: Student Gateway to the United States Government The site is designed as a student gateway to the Federal goverment. Online information and transactional services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can find information about financial aid, career development, education planning, consumer protection, and locate a variety of other information from virtually every major Federal government agency, civilian and military. BUBL LINK: Catalogue of Internet Resources BUBL LINK is a UK subject directory of Internet resources organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification system. All items (currently 11,000 resources) are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Digital Librarian Each week, librarian Margaret Vail Anderson compiles an annotated list of new sites to add to her extensive Digital Librarian collection of the best on the Web. Her list is consistently good in providing access to a wide range of new and newsworthy sites. INFOMINE: General Reference Sources Developed and maintained by the University of California at Riverside Libraries, INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals and books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, and other types of information. Resources are arranged in eleven broad topical sections, and a "What's New" page is available within each section. Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) Maintained by librarian Marylaine Block, the site offers a collection of Internet resources. Of particular value is her collection of "Hot Paper Topics," for current event research. "Neat New Stuff I Found This Week" lists choices for the best new finds on the net. "What's New on the Net" lists a collection of new site announcement services. Internet Public Library Reference Center Hosted by the University of Michigan's School of Information, this is a very useful and rich resource. The librarians maintain a collection of online ready reference works, respond to reference questions, create web resources, evaluate and categorize resources on the Internet. The major topics are Reference, Arts & Humanities, Education, Health & Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Librarians' Index to the Internet A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 5,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to the library user's information needs. Entries are arranged by subject area, and individual entries are alphabetized within a subject area. The subjects cover a wide range of topics. The category "New This Week" offers a listing of the latest additions to this site. LibrarySpot LibrarySpot.com is a virtual library resource center. The site was designed "to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot." LibrarySpot, a commercial site, is the first in a family of vertical information portals (see also BookSpot and GovSpot) designed to make finding the best topical information on the Internet easier. Forbes selected LibrarySpot as one of the 33 best sites on the Web, and PC Magazine named it one of the Top 100 Web Sites. Martindale's The Reference Desk Maintained by James Martindale, this site contains an extensive index to online references. The site, which is divided into "information centers," also links to information on such subjects as the arts, science, sports, and technology, among many others. WWW Virtual Library The WWW Virtual Library was started in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee. It is staffed entirely by volunteers: experts, organizations, or other interested people who take responsibility either to create an entry for the library or to maintain a topic or subject area. There are numerous individual subjects ranging alphabetically from Aboriginal Studies to Zoos. Yahoo's Reference Center Yahoo!, one of the first subject guides or directories on the World Wide Web, contains reference tools for finding information in basic reference tools that are available on the Internet.

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