Internet Portals

A portal (or "gateway") site provides links to the best web resources for education and research on the Internet. Portal sites save researchers significant time in locating reliable web sites in any area of study.

Experiment with these portals to find the ones that you prefer. Bookmark your favorite for future use.

Librarians' Internet Index

Annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their reliability and usefulness.
The Internet Public Library

A searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative web sites.

Intute

Hands down, this is my top choice of portals for high school and academic research. Intute directs you to the best Internet sites for education and research in the social sciences, arts and humanities, science and technology, and health and life sciences. Made by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the sites. The WWW Virtual Library

This is the oldest catalog of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 in Geneva. It is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert. It is not the biggest index of the Web but is recognized as being one of the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

Other Portals:
BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources

A portal organized by Dewey classification from the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.

dMoz Open Directory Project

A directory of the web constructed and maintained by a global community of volunteer editors.

iLectures
Major universities in the UK and the US make their lectures available to download on this educational arm of the iTunes music download site.
Wikipedia Portals

The External Links section at the end of a Wikipedia article can be a good source of direction for Internet research.

Word Wizardry by Logophilus, aka Brett, aka Chiron

At this point in time Brett is working hard on finishing up a global vocabulary business focusing on the Greek and Latin roots of GRE vocabulary. In the meantime, he is continuing to write his SAT English vocabulary blog; his latest entry discussed President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and the etymology and SAT related derivatives of the words "peace" and "President." He updates his blog on a semi-monthly basis.

Fun Word of the Day: cloffin: to sit idly by a fire

Etymology Links

For those interested in finding out the core code of the English language, check out this Greek and Latin roots English vocabulary words site.

For more in depth information on the way words work and how etymology is the key to English vocabulary, take a gander at Brett's Greek and Latin root words blog, where he discusses fully the vast influence of Greek and Latin root words.

Play a fun etymology game!

Donate rice to the hungry and feed your mind all at the same time at free rice.

Donate land to the rain forest by playing a fun word game, designed by cruciverbalists, at charitii.