Directories

=** Using these search engines is like getting expert help for free! **= **They are the best place to start when you're doing serious research.**

=Directories= These search large lists of web sites **compiled by experts**. There aren't as many sites as say Google or yahoo, but the **quality** is high. Use these when researching broad topics such as: civil rights, physical chemistry, English literature.
 * I recommend** trying directories before other search engines; you will **save time** because someone else has already checked the websites for you - for free!

General directories
This is a list of great pages assembled by the Library of Congress in America. This list of good websites assembled by a group of American universities. The VL is the oldest catalogue of the web. it was started by Tim Berners-Lee, who created HTML and the Web itself in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.
 * [|Alcove 9]**
 * [|The Internet Public Library]**
 * [|The WWW Virtual Library]**

**IB level directories**
This directory uses the Dewey Decimal system to organise information. Built by librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detro, and others. Built by a consortium of seven universities in the UK. A list by the University of Heriot-Watt, Scotland. Some of these are the same, but there's also some rare and very advanced directories here. Very respected science searcher. Make a search and then choose //Preferred Web// for free content, Journals must be paid for.
 * [|BUBL Link]**
 * [|Infomine]**
 * [|Intute]**
 * [|Pinakes]**
 * Scirus**