Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Guide
Recommended resources for Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

Subject Directories

About Subject Directories

Subject directories are catalogues of Web sites prepared by indexers, who review a site, then link it to an index category. These services are organised into subject categories and sub-categories, and also usually have a search engine, to allow the user to perform keyword searches as well as browse through resources. A search in a subject directory searches on the catalogue record and not on the Web pages themselves.

Subject directories index fewer Web pages than search engines, which are compiled by computers, and the content may be targetted towards a particular audience. Some commercial subject directories accept payment to make sites retrieve more frequently.

Subject Specific Directories

Internet Directory for Botany (IDB)
The IDB is an index to botanical information available on the Internet.

WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
The WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture is a selected collection of links for agricultural Internet resources that are indexed by region, type of site and subject area. See also: WWW Virtual Library: Economics

AgricultureB2B.com
"Directory of Agricultural Web sites and Agriculture News. AgricultureB2B.com was created to bring the benefits of the Internet to all people presently engaged in the constructive conservation, development, and promotion of the agriculture industry. The Directory provides a comprehensive collection of websites that are nicely categorized under general subjects like biotechnology, environment, farm animals, chemicals, crops, and equipment. You can also read the latest agricultural news via the site."

WWW Virtual Library: Irrigation
This site is maintained by Dr.Thomas-M. Stein of the University of Kassel, Germany. Links include irrigation news, congresses and conferences, online journals, discussion lists, hydraulic research, engineering, modelling, organisations and institutes, statistics, standards and policy and many more.

WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economics)
This web site lists and describes material that is, at least in part, freely available on the Internet. It is designed by Lauri Saarinen for himself and other academic economists. The link for Agriculture and Natural Resources offers annotated lists of links to international collections, institutions, publications, data and communication. There are also links to information on courses. The web site can be searched by keyword or by browsing and provides access to an extensive list of relevant journals.

General Subject Directories

Academic Info
Academic Info began in 1998 as an independent Internet subject directory owned by Michael Madin from the University of Washington. It is now a registered non-profit organization. You can browse by subject or search by keywords.

BUBL LINK
BUBL LINK is produced in the United Kingdom. It is a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering scholarly subject areas, including agriculture, aquaculture and horticulture. All items are evaluated, described and catalogued using the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

Infomine
Infomine, produced by the University of California, focuses on scholarly resource collections, electronic journals and books, online library catalogues, and directories of researchers. Searching hints are available on the search pages.

Lycos
Lycos is a general and commercially orientated subject directory, with basic and advanced search options. It is possible to search within broad subject categories and the results of a search are organised in groupings such as popular sites, general websites and shopping. Check the help section for search tips.

Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is constructed and maintained by a global community of volunteer editors. It is possible to search within specific categories or the entire directory.

Scout Report Archives
Internet resources chosen by the Scout Report editorial staff, in the USA, are catalogued and organised for browsing by subject and keyword searching.

Yahoo! (Australia and New Zealand)
Yahoo is a subject directory with a search engine. Results are returned in various categories and can also be listed as web sites, web pages, related news and shopping. Check the Help pages for tips on using the service effectively.

Specialist Subject Directories

Gimpsy
Gimpsy only lists sites that provide online activity or help you with a specific task. Sites are categorised by the services they provide. For example, if you wanted to learn web design, go to Gimpsy, choose the category Learn > web design. Here you will find a list of sites where you can learn, online, how to write web pages.