YAHOO! DIRECTORIES

     YAHOO DIRECTORIES are similar to Google’s, but I have found their listings are a bit different. If you’re doing a thorough search for something, it’s worthwhile to try them. People often go to some trouble getting their websites listed with YAHOO, because this improves search engine rankings. For more information about the YAHOO DIRECTORY and how you can get your site listed in it, go to:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/basics/index.html

OPEN DIRECTORY

     The OPEN DIRECTORY calls itself “The largest human edited directory on the web.” And therein lies its problem. Many Open Directory areas lack a human editor, and without an editor the sites submitted to that part of the Open Directory languish. Therefore, the sites listed tend to be a bit elderly, which may be a good thing for your purposes and may not.

     If you want to get your site listed, remember they’re both slow and picky, and, unless your site has sterling qualities, it won’t make it.

http://www.dmoz.org/

GOOGLE SCIENCE REFERENCE DIRECTORY

     An extensive listing of science reference material available online.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Reference/

“WORLD’S BEST” SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SITES

     The sites listed may be nontechnical or technical, including SCIENCE and NATURE magazines. You will also find a link to the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS NETWORK, which has “fascinating science news & in-depth articles on general science, the environment, genetics, space, health & technology.”

http://www.worldbestwebsites.com/science.htm

DIRECTORY OF BIOGRAPHIES

     OMNIBIOGRAPHY.COM is the largest directory of biographies available on the Web containing information on more than 110,000 important people from antiquity to the present time.

http://www.omnibiography.com/

GOOGLE’S ELECTRONIC TREASURY

     GOOGLE has a directory of books whose text is entirely online. Many of these can be freely read online. Discovering this simply made my day. When I first heard that Google was scanning into its database the Library of Congress, Oxford University library, Harvard University library, and several others, I thought those books would be sitting online for anyone to read 24/7. Well, they aren’t. Publishers have most of them under copyright, and they don’t intend to make them available for free. But this GOOGLE DIRECTORY has choice segments of what is freely available for you and me to read online.

http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/

     READ PRINT, one of the items in this Google directory, has a nicely set up and easy-to-use listing of classics.

http://www.readprint.com/

U.S. PUBLIC RECORDS, FREE AND NOT FREE

     The FREE PUBLIC RECORDS DIRECTORY says, “Our public records free directory provides a geographically oriented directory of public record resources for criminal court records, civil court records, marriage records, divorce records, real and personal property records, deeds, mortgages, liens and other recorded documents, jail and inmate records, sex offender records, wanted persons records, and many more free public records.

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/

     And I just discovered another public records site, which also has Canadian public records:

http://www.publicrecordcenter.com/

     If you need information not in the free directory, try the not-free SEARCH SYSTEMS records at

http://searchsystems.net