Librarian-Approved Search Portals

These search portals-- also known as SUBJECT-STARTERS-- are connected to thousands of librarian-approved web sites. One advantage of using these portals rather than Google is that the web site evaluation has already been done for you. The expert researchers (university, college, city librarians) would not link the sites to their hubs, if the sites did not have reliable, valid information.

 

Librarian-Approved Subject Starters	Information	Access
	BUBL is a catalogue of Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and organized according to the Dewey system.	http://bubl.ac.uk/
	Canadian web page with links to useful sites for Ontario students, including specific secondary subjects.	www.edselect.com
	The web sites accessed through the Internet Public Library’s search engine are valid and librarian-approved.	www.ipl.org
	Librarian-approved, this is one of the best web resources for education and research.	www.intute.ac.uk
	Link to Learning connects to hundreds of web sites, which are organized by grade and subject.	www.linktolearning.com/ secondary/
	Virtual library of web  sites organized by the Dewey system. (Compiled and maintained by a teacher librarian.) Scroll to 3rd paragraph and click "Virtual Library."	www.bydewey.com
	This site offers the best of the library and the Internet, brought to you by the City of Toronto Librarians.	www.virtualreference library.ca/