Super 10 websites on Encyclopaedias
- This is Encyclopaedia Britannica's guide to the Internet, with well-structured subjectwise search that gives you links to the best sites. The Britannica's meticulousness is also evident in the net version.
- This is the home page of National Science Foundation, USA, and predicatably there are pointers to the best resource sites in Engineering and Science. The search also helps you locate research work results and projects. Invaluable place for those searching science information.
- If you can't actually visit the library of Congress in Washington to dip into its wealth of knowledge, this is your next best option. Most of the sections in the library are online and are available to surfers.
- Many of the sections of the redoubtable Smithsonian Institution are available here for a browser looking for enlightenment on subjects as varied as American History and the National Air and Space Museum.
e) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- One of the widely acknowledged resource sites for information. The CIA factbook has crisp nuggets of information about countries and people.
f) http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_ency.html
- Billed as the only site for financial information, it's got entries that give you lucid definitions and explanations about finance and government.
- Don't be put off by the name. It's got links to all kinds of medical sites - research institutions, support groups, disease related associations... it gives you invaluable lead to online information.
h) http://www.spacestation.com
- If space exploration and planetary data is your target, it wouldn't hurt to start here. Stunning graphics and precise text are the winning features of this far-out site.
i) http://www.encyberpedia.com/eindex.htm
- This is one of the best guides to encyclopaedia on the net. It has a subject wise listing of links that will help you track down information in virtually any field.