This site contains a databases of sites reviewed in The Scout Report provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. This is the oldest academic subject directory on the World Wide Web. It is a highly respected directory sponsored by the W3 Consortium. Many of the guides are very comprehensive, however some guides have languished and are not frequently updated. Examine each subject guide with care.
Indexing is created from the collected files, and the results are presented in a schematic order.
There is no selection criteria for the collection of files. Ranking scheme more complex than most with results that are often quite good for academic purposes. Selecting Power Search allows users to sort alphabetically, by keyword or by domain name. Ask Jeeves often does a good job of deriving different meanings from ambiguous questions. On the whole, for academic research purposes Ask Jeeves tends to work best with targeted reference-type questions.