L-N includes the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines and transcripts from the past ten years. Trade journals and some magazines. Covers many journals dating back to the early 1800's. This guide includes links to various search engines and suggestions for effective searching. If you are interested in finding out more about the variety of search engines and directories available for the web, this annotated list is one place to start.
Directories are searchable databases of web resources, classified by people.
Yahoo is one example of a directory. A searchable catalogue of 2500 Internet resources that have been selected and catalogued by professional librarians. This directory concentrates on identifying gateway sites for broad topics. It's especially useful for exploring broad or vaguely defined subject areas. Results vary according to which search engine you use due to differences in the search engines' methods of obtaining links and ranking search results.