Internet Resources Meta-Index

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Internet Resources Meta-Index

This document is intended to be a loosely categorized meta-index of the various resource directories and indices available on the Internet. Please send suggestions for new entries on this list (any index or directory of resources) to mosaic@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

World Wide Web

Searchable indices:
- W3Catalog, a searchable catalog of WWW resources at CUI, Geneva, Switzerland; updated automatically every day from a variety of sources.
- WWWW - the World Wide Web Worm
- Meta-Library index at the Global Network Academy.
Subject indices:
- Whole Internet Catalog from O'Reilly and Associates, a part of the Global Network Navigator.
- WWW Virtual Library, a subject listing from CERN.
- The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides from the University of Michigan.
Server indices:
- Central index of WWW servers at CERN.
- Index of resources by protocol at CERN.
Miscellaneous indices and listings:
- NCSA Mosaic documents:
  - NCSA What's New listing, updated almost daily.
  - NCSA Mosaic Demo Document, including an extensive index of exemplary hypermedia applications.
  - Network Starting Points, some points of exploration for new Internet users.
- Network Services List at Honolulu Community College.
- EXPO, a central point of departure for hypermedia exhibits on the Internet, including Library of Congress exhibits.
- Hypermedia exhibitions index at ANBG.
- Astronomical Internet Resources listing at STScI.
- Discipline information indices at USGS:
- Resource listings at NASA Langley:
  - Government Information.
  - NASA Online Information.
- Unified CS Technical Report Index at Indiana University.
- Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication by John December.
- CyberSight, the central on-line "jumping off" point for alternative information seekers.

WAIS

Gopher

Searchable indices:
- Veronica (alternate interface at Library of Congress).
- Jughead at Washington & Lee University; see also WLU's Finding Gopher Resources.
Subject indices:
- The Global Electronic Library subject listing at the Library of Congress.
- Gopher Jewels subject listing at Bath (alternate versions also at Bath and at Warwick.
- Subject tree at Texas A&M.
- Subject tree at Rice.
- Subject tree at University of California Santa Barbara.
- Subject tree at South Carolina.
- Subject tree at University of Texas Dallas.
- Subject tree at Virginia.
- Subject tree at North Carolina State.
- Subject tree at Purdue.
- Subject tree at UTK.
- Subject tree at University of North Texas.
- Study Carrels at Vermont.
- Gopher subject trees listing at Bath.
- Gopher subject trees listing at MSU.
- Community News Service: an index of lots of general-purpose information.
Server indices:
- Gopherspace overview at Minnesota.
- Finding Gopher Resources index at WLU, including an alternate comprehensive index of Gopher sites and a what's new area.
Miscellaneous indices and listings:
- Virtual Reference Desk at University of California Irvine.
- Simon Fraser University's Electronic Library
- Federal Government Information, , an Internet Resources index, etc. at Library of Congress Marvel
- InterNIC Info Source, particularly Virtual Treasures of the Internet; also InterNIC Directory of Directories
- Computational Biology Gopher at Johns Hopkins; points to lots of computational biology information and a wide range of other biology Gopher servers.
- Biogopher at ANU.
- Biological Information Servers index at Stanford; a similar list by topic.
- Global Information Services index at Stanford.
- Environmental Information Catalog at CIESIN.
- Electronic text archives and resource listing at Wiretap.
- SunSITE at UNC, a general information repository and index.

Telnet

HyTelnet listing of online library services and other interactive services (served from the University of Kansas).
Yanoff Internet Services List at UWM (also Indiana University version).

FTP

Hypertext Archie Servers, a list of archie servers for Web users.
Archie Request Form at NCSA.

Experimental Metamap

Here is an experimental graphical map of some of the resource indices and listings on the Internet.

Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index

Here is an experimental meta-index of search engines on the Internet; requires Mosaic 2.0.