When a college professor says, “It’s okay to find some of your information on the web.”…

Where can you go to find the kind of information he or she will view as scholarly, reputable, and reliable?

The resources below are all organized like a subject directory (much like Yahoo) and

only  include websites that the editors feel are accurate, reliable, and reputable.

These qualities make the following sites ideal for college-level research on countless subjects.

http://www.fhu.edu/library/lib_electRes.asp

FHU LIBRARY ELECTRONIC RESOURCES was created by the FHU Library staff to meet the particular needs of FHU students.  The subject directory includes electronic databases (i.e., primary & secondary resources) that are free to currently enrolled students & many web sites that have been carefully selected by library staff & teaching faculty.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections is a directory of over 110,000 sites that are “relevant to faculty, students & research staff at the university level.”   INFOMINE is “librarian built.”  Librarians from the Univ. of California, Wake Forest Univ., California State Univ., Univ. of Detroit—Mercy, & other colleges collaborated to create INFOMINE.

http://lii.org/

LIBRARIANS’ INDEX TO THE INTERNET was created to “provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world.”  LII contains over 11,000 links—all selected & evaluated by professional librarians.  Originally created for the general public, LII’s usefulness extends to those in an academic setting as well.

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/

BUBL LINK is the name of a U.K. based catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued & described. Links are checked / fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge.