Virtual Libraries

Please mail www-request@info.cern.ch if you know of any arrangement of information by subject not in this list of lists.

These are collections of information by subject matter, good places to start when looking for information.

Browsing by subject

The World Wide Web Virtual Library is distributed in that different subjects are handled by different sites.
The EINet Galaxy is a browsable and searchable database of public and private information. Sometimes produces the weirdest results.
Planet Earth
Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index. Yet another one.
Nova-Links is an extensive Internet navigator from Nova Southeastern University.
Yahoo - A Guide to WWW .
Distributedly Administered Categorical List Of Documents
CyberSight collates alternative information points on the Web, with interactive elements.
Yanoff's Special Internet Connections

The W3 searchable catalog built from other sources here. A very useful tool.
The UU_NNA wishes to create a fully acredited library over computer networks. This is their library .
The Internet Services list (based on Yanoff's Internet List)
The Whole Internet Catalogue from O'Reilly (updated from the bestselling "The Whole Internet Catalog User's Guide Catalog")
The Clearinghouse for Subject-oriented Internet Guides in Michigan -- you can browse or search.

EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet will help you join the global village known as Cyberspace or the Net (1.02)
Marc Andreessen's big "loosely catagorized" meta index has pointers for example to the many Gopher subject trees.
The Mother-of-all BBS collects WWW Home Pages for Companies, Universities, Research Centers, Government Agencies, Research projects, Hardware or Software announcements

The HCI Bibliography Project: A free-access online extended bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction (gathers most books, journals, and conference proceedings on HCI dating back to 1980)
Interpaedia: An internet encyclopaedia. In discussion. See discussion archive .