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General

SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/

Maintainer: Institute for Research and Learning Technology, the University of Bristol, UK
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes
Strengths: Level of description, UDC classification scheme, breadth of coverage
SOSIG is a selective meta-site, which covers almost all areas of social science. It contains two browsable directories (alphabetic and Universal Decimal System Classification), and each resource is described and assigned key words. Users can browse either the entire resource list or just the UK list.
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Anthropology

UCSB Anthropology Cool Web Sites
http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/anth/netinfo.html

Maintainer: University of California, Santa Barbara Anthropology Department
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes
Strengths: Breadth and depth of coverage, geographic as well as topical organization
Cool Web Sites is organized along topical (cultural, physical, and archaeology) as well as geographical lines. In the "lite" version (no descriptions), "hot" icons mark especially interesting sites. Brief descriptions are available for the entire alphabetic list of sites. Cool Web Sites also contains links to University Departmental and Museum sites, conferences, and other meta-sites.
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Education

IPL Ready Reference Collection: Education
http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/edu0000.html

Maintainer: Internet Public Library
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes, for the entire ready reference collection
Strengths: A meta-page for all grade level education resources
Though the Internet Public Library's Education meta-page is not as comprehensive in any of its categories as more specialized meta-pages, it covers all grade level education resources, including adult, alternative, K-12, higher ed., and vocational. The home page contains a brief list of major education information and meta-sites.
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APPLICATIONS--Education
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/applications-education.html

Maintainer: John December
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes, for all of December's subject indexes
Strengths: A meta-page for all grade level education resources
As with the Internet Public Library collection, December sacrifices depth of coverage in any single area for breadth across areas. This page is divided into major collections, specialized education sites, documents and reports, and indexes.
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Government Information

Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/govweb.html

Maintainer: University of Michigan Libraries Documents Center
Annoated links: Yes
Search: Yes
Strengths: Comprehensive coverage of international, national, state, and statistical governmental information
Keys to this site are its Federal, Foreign, International, State and Local, and Statistics pointers. Each is subdivided by topic or area in a logical, intuitive way. It also contains Documents in the News section, a very useful way to keep up with government making news headlines and web sources related to them.
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Political Science

Political Science Resources
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/po/psr.htm

Maintainer: Richard Kimber, Lecturer in Politics, University of Keele (UK)
Annotated links: Some, very brief
Search: Yes
Strengths: Depth and breadth of resources
Political Science Resources contains briefly annotated pointers in more than a dozen Political Science related categories. Of particular interest is its elections and electoral systems page, with pointers to elections and electoral systems information in over 50 countries.
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Sociology

SocioSite: Going Dutch Sociology
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/

Maintainer: Albert Benschop, Sociological Institute of the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Annoated links: Yes
Search: No
Strengths: Breadth and Depth of coverage, geographic as well as topical organization
Highlight of this site is the subject area section, consisting of over 120 subjects at present. Most of the other topical pages are arranged geographically, from WorldWide to European to Dutch. This is a wide topical directory, and some of the sites wander to the boundaries of it (and beyond).
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