two useful websites
Useful web pages | Mike McDonald | May 22nd, 2003
I recently came across a couple of online resources that may be of interest to CPs (sorry if this is old news). The first is part of the Open Directory Project, which pulls together valuable websites in various fields, such as the following site for linguistics:
About the Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
The Republic of the Web
The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet.
Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.
It is neatly organised in a hierarchy of categories, and includes not only articles, but also forthcoming conferences, names of journals, related institutes, and so on. I read about it in the Science Direct Web Research Guide.
The Science Direct Web Research Guide is a really useful resource that I intend to use extensively in a project with my students on how to do research in English on the Web.
Cheers,
Mike McDonald
Editor's note: Here is some content from the first page of the Web Research Guide:
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