2020 Directory of Directories

The 2020 Directory of Directories is a comprehensive listing of directory, subject guide and index resources and sites on the Internet. This guide includes sites in the private, public, corporate, academic and non-profit sectors and spans the following subject matters: Academic/Education; Economics/Business; Government and Statistics; Humanities; Information and Information Science; Law; Medicine; News; Science and Engineering; and Social Sciences.

SINGLE SUBJECT DIRECTORIES AND PORTALS

Academic/Education
Economics/Business
Government and Statistics
Humanities
Information and Information Science
Law
Medicine
News
Science and Engineering
Social Sciences

Multiple Subject Trees and Multiple Subject Directories and Portals

ACADEMIC/EDUCATION

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources 2020
http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/

Academic Info
http://www.academicinfo.net/

AI Topics
http://aitopics.org/

All Academic
https://www.allacademic.com/

Atlas Network – Global Directory of Partners and Think Tanks in 97 Countries
https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/

Directory of Affordable College
https://frugaldad.com/cheap-colleges/

Directory of Libraries Throughout the World
https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/

Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services
https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/directory-vendors-online-learning-products-and-services

Education Bug – Complete Listing of Educational Resources
https://www.EducationBug.org/

Education World
https://www.educationworld.com/

eNotes – Comprehensive Online Educational Resources by Experts
https://www.enotes.com/

LibGuides Community
https://community.libguides.com/

MERLOT – an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.
https://www.merlot.org/

MOOC List
https://www.mooc-list.com/

Open Access Directory (OAD)
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2020
https://www.EducationResources.info/

https://www.OERSources.com/

Wikipedia: List of Online Reference Desks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_reference_desks/General

Virtual Learning Resources Center
https://www.virtuallrc.com/

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

192.com – Search for People, Businesses & Places in the UK
https://www.192.com/

akama – Open Business Directory
https://www.akama.com/

BizDb – UK Business Directory
https://www.bizdb.co.uk/

BPubs.com – The Business Publications Search Engine
https://www.bpubs.com/

Business 2.0
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/

Business.com
https://www.business.com/

Business Information on the Internet
https://www.rba.co.uk/sources/

Business Intelligence Resources
https://www.BIResources.info/

CEO Express
httpx://ceoexpress.com/

ChatterBots Resources and Sites 2020
https://www.zillman.us/subject-tracers/chatterbots-resources-on-the-internet-2020/

Crowdfunding Resources 2020
httpx://www.CrowdFundingResources.info/

CrunchBase – Free technology Company Database
https://www.crunchbase.com/

Design Directory – An International Design Links Database
https://www.dexigner.com/directory/

Destination Meta-Guide.com 3.0
http://meta-guide.com/

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/business-archives-section/directory-of-corporate-archives-in-the-united-states-and-canada-introduction

Entrepreneurial Resources
https://EntrepreneurialResources.info/

Financial Sources 2020
https://www.FinancialSources.info/

Foundation Directory Online (FDO)
https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/ 

Free Software Directory
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

Green Book – The Guide for Buyers of Marketing Research
https://www.greenbook.org/

Green Files 2020
https://www.GreenFiles.info/

Hoover’s Online – The Business Network
https://www.hoovers.com/

HR Internet Guide
https://www.hr-guide.com/

Industrial Resource Network – Vertical Directories of Industrial Manufacturers and Distributors
https://theindustrialresource.com/

Inomics® – The Internet Site for Economists
https://www.inomics.com/

Insider Pages – Recommendations
https://www.insiderpages.com/

International Business Resources on the World Wide Web
https://globaledge.msu.edu/reference-desk/

IQS Directory – Industrial and Manufacturer Directory
https://www.iqsdirectory.com/

KnowThis.com – Marketing Virtual Library
https://www.KnowThis.com/

Marketing Resource Directory from the American Marketing Association
https://marketingresourcedirectory.ama.org/

MaRS Startup Toolkit
https://learn.marsdd.com/

New Economy Resources 2020
https://www.NewEconomyResources.com/

Nichelisting – Human-Reviewed, Niche Website Directories
https://www.nichelistings.org/

Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources 2020
https://www.OERSources.com/

QualityTrade.com – Compare Ratings and Trade With the Best Manufacturers and Suppliers in the World
https://www.qualitytrade.com/

References.net – Web’s Largest Resources for Reference Resources
https://www.references.net/

Search Systems Free Public Records Directory
https://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/

SoftLookup.com – Free Business to Business Software Download Directory
https://www.softlookup.com/

Source Guides Renewable Energy Directory
https://www.sourceguides.com/

Super Searchers Do Business: Business URLs
https://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ssdb.htm

The Freelance Stack – Best Freelance Tools
https://www.hellobonsai.com/best-freelance-tools

Wikitravel
https://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page

GOVERNMENT AND STATISTICS

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/world-leaders-1/

Congressional Directory for the 116th Congress 2019 – 2020
https://www.congress.gov/members

Congress.gov/
https://www.Congress.gov/

Data: Government, State, City, Local and Public
https://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/government-local-public.html

Directory of United Nations System Organizations
https://www.unsceb.org/directory

Discover U.S. Government Information
https://www.govinfo.gov

European Governments On-Line
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

Federal Government and Statistical Agencies
https://nces.ed.gov/partners/fedstat.asp

FirstGov
https://www.usa.gov/

Florida Electronic Federal Depository Library
https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/

GovEngine.com – US Government Directory
https://www.GovEngine.com/

Governments on the WWW
https://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/

GovInfo – Discover U.S. Government Information
https://www.GovInfo.gov/

Guide to the Global Economy
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/

Leadership Directories
https://www.leadershipdirectories.com/

Library of Congress
https://loc.gov/

National Association of Counties (NACo)
https://www.naco.org/

National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
https://www.nass.org/

Net Data Directory
https://netdatadirectory.org/ 

New Economy, Resources, Tools and Alerts 2020
https://2020NewEconomy.com/

ParticipateDB – Collaborative Catalogue for Online Tools for Participation
https://participatedb.com/

State and Local Government on the Net Directory
https://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

Statistics Resources and Big Data 2020
https://www.StatisticsResources.info/

The United States Government Manual
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=GOVMAN

University of Michigan Clark Library Government Information Collection
https://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library/collections/government-information

United States House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/

United States Senate
https://www.senate.gov/

HUMANITIES

EDSITEment – The Best of the Humanities On the Web
https://edsitement.neh.gov/

VoS – Voice of the Shuttle
https://vos.ucsb.edu/

INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Awareness Watch Newsletter
https://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

Daily Rotation
https://www.dailyrotation.com/

Directory of Libraries Throughout the World
https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
https://www.doabooks.org/

DLIST – Digital Library of Information Science and Technology
https://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/105067

E-Books Directory
http:s//www.e-booksdirectory.com/

Free Private Label Rights Article Directory – 100,000s of Total Free PLR Articles
https://plrplr.com/

Free Software Foundation (FSF)
https://www.fsf.org/

InfoLibrarian
https://www.infolibrarian.com/

Information Retrieval (IR) and Information Extraction (IE)
https://www.webir.org/

Information Science Today
https://www.infosciencetoday.org/

IT Facts
https://itfacts.biz/

ITtutorials Information Technology
https://ittutorials.net/

LibGuides Community
https://community.libguides.com/

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
https://www.libraryresearch.com/

LibWeb – Library Servers via WWW
https://www.lib-web.org/

List of Wikipedias
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

OCLC Research Publications Repository
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications.html

OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories
https://www.opendoar.org/

Search Engine Colossus: International Directory of Search Engines
https://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Social Media Directory – Department of Homeland Security
https://www.dhs.gov/social-media-directory

Springo – Web Categorization
https://www.springo.com/

Web Developers Handbook 2.0
https://www.alvit.de/handbook/

Wikipedia: List of Online Reference Desks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_reference_desks/General

Zillman Blog – Information Research (26,000+ Postings)
https://www.zillman.us

Zillman Columns
https://www.ZillmanColumns.com/

LAW

beSpacific – Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002
https://www.bespacific.com/

FindLaw
https://www.FindLaw.com/

Internet Legal Research Group
https://www.ilrg.com/

Law of the Super Searchers – Law URLs
https://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/loss.htm

Legal Engine
https://www.legalengine.com/

Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

Legal Information Institute
https://www.law.cornell.edu/

LLRX – Law, Technology, and Knowledge Discovery Articles and Resources for Librarians, Lawyers and Law Firms
https://www.llrx.com/

Public Records Online Directory
https://publicrecords.netronline.com/

The Guide to Law Online
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php

The ‘Lectric Law Library
https://www.lectlaw.com/index.html

Virtual Law Library
http://law.indiana.edu/lawlibrary/index.shtml

MEDICINE

Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
https://www.bartleby.com/107/

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/

Healio
https://www.healio.com/

Healthcare Online Resources 2020
https://www.HealthcareResources.info/

Martindale’s Health Science Guide 2019
https://www.martindalecenter.com/HSGuide.html

MedlinePlus
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

National Cancer Institute Research Resources
https://resresources.nci.nih.gov/

NLM Catalog
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog

Psych Web
https://www.psywww.com/

Super Searchers on Health and Medicine: Health URLs
https://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ssmed.htm

The Merck Manual of Medical Information – Home Edition
https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/index.html

NEWS

Google News
https://news.google.com/news

HeadlineSpot.com – US Newspapers Online News Headlines, World News, Current Events
https://www.headlinespot.com/

Super Searchers in the News – News URLs
https://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ssnews.htm

Agriculture Network Information Center
https://www.agnic.org/

Agriculture Resources 2020
https://www.AgricultureResources.info/

Artificial Intelligence Resources 2020
https://www.AIResources.info/

Avibase – The World Bird Database
https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/avibase.jsp

Best Environmental Resources Directories
https://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

Biological Informatics 2020
https://www.BiologicalInformatics.info/

CognitionX – Community and Directory of All Things AI
https://cognitionx.com/

Engineering Information
https://www.ei.org/

Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/

EurekAlerts – Science News
https://www.eurekalert.org/

Everything Mining – Comprehensive Site for Mining Industry
https://www.everythingmining.com/

National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Collections
https://nsdl.oercommons.org/

Open Science Directory
https://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

PrimateLit Database – Primatology
https://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/

RocketAware – Programmer’s Webliography and Index
https://www.rocketaware.com/

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science – Government Science Portal
https://www.science.gov/

Science Tracer Bullets Online
https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/tbs.html</a

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Academic Info – Social Sciences Gateway
https://www.academicinfo.net/subsoc.html

American Psychological Association
https://www.apa.org/

Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data
https://www.disc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp

JISC Resource Guide – Social Science
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/

KobreGuide – Guide to the Web’s Best Multimedia and Video Journalism
https://www.kobreguide.com/

Social Media Directory – Department of Homeland Security
https://www.dhs.gov/social-media-directory

Travel Notes — The Online Guide to Travel
https://www.travelnotes.org/

MULTIPLE SUBJECT TREES AND MULTIPLE SUBJECT – DIRECTORIES AND PORTALS

01webdirectory.com – Best of Web Directory
https://01webdirectory.com/

4Anything Network
https://www.4anything.com/

A1 Web Directory
https://www.a1webdirectory.org/

A-Z Subject Resources on British Library Net
https://www.bl.uk/

A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet
https://reporter.asu.edu/

About.com – Human Guides. Expert Guidance from Hundreds of Guides
https://www.about.com/

Academic Info
https://www.academicinfo.net/

Argus Clearinghouse – Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
https://www.clearinghouse.net/

Awesome Project
https://awesome.re/

Baker Library Harvard Business School Site Map
https://www.library.hbs.edu/sitemap.html

Beaucoup
https://www.beaucoup.com/

Best of the Web Directory
https://botw.org/

Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/

British Academy PORTAL
https://www.britac.ac.uk/

Business Reference & Services Section (BRASS) Business Guides
https://brass.libguides.com/

Chiff.com
https://www.Chiff.com/

CMC Info – Computer Mediated Communication Information Sources
https://www.december.com/cmc/info/

Deep Web Research and Discovery Index 2020
https://www.DeepWebResearch.info/

Directory Resources 2020
https://www.DirectoryResources.info/

GOLDEN – The Intelligent, Open Knowledge Base
https://golden.com/

GoGuides
https://www.GoGuides.org/

Ibiblio Collection Index – The Public’s Library and Digital Archive
https://www.ibiblio.org/catalog/

IFLA Electronic Collections
https://archive.ifla.org/II/

Internet Library for Librarians
https://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

JISC Resource Guides
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/

JoeAnt.com – Search Engine – Directory
https://www.joeant.com/

LibGuides – Create Research Guides, Share Knowledge
https://springshare.com/libguides/

LinksGiving
https://www.linksgiving.com/

Martindale’s Reference Center 2020
https://www.martindalecenter.com/

MegaSources
https://www.pathcom.com/~dtudor/megasources.htm

Moving Image Gateway
https://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

OpenIndex – Creating a Public Internet Index
https://www.openindex.org/

Qweboo – The Now Web
https://qweboo.com/ 

Re:QUEST dot Net™ – Online Library of Internet and Reference Resources
https://www.re-quest.net/

Research Guides — George Washington University
https://libguides.gwu.edu/

Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs from the Virtual Private Library
https://www.SubjectTracers.com/

TenLinks.com – Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals
https://www.tenlinks.com/

TheFreeLibrary – News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/

TheFreeSite.com
https://www.thefreesite.com/

The SuperSearchers Web Page
http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/

The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/ 

UCB & Internet Resources
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/index.html

Virtual Private Library Subject Tracers
https://www.VirtualPrivateLibrary.org/

WebBrain
https://www.thebrain.com/

Where to do Research
https://www.wheretodoresearch.com/

Wikipedia
https://www.wikipedia.com/

WWW Virtual Library
https://www.vlib.org/

Yahoo!
https://www.yahoo.com/

Zeef – Curated Directory for Development and Tech Resources
https://zeef.com/

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