Librarians’ Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,300 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.
The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars whose aspiration is eventually to provide a scholarly description of every author and text read in the English-speaking world.
is a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and includes links to many sites providing full text articles.
The Internet Public Library A site from the University of Michigan to serve the public by finding and organizing quality information sources on the Web. There are great ready reference resources here.
High School Hub A good general resource of cites of particular interest to high school students.
Background Notes US government-compiled information on countries and international organizations.
World Factbook Basic intelligence for all areas of the world published by the CIA.