Alphabeticalist Topics --- A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J-K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U-V / W / X-Y-Z
BUBL LINK / BUBL Information Service, Centre for Digital Library Research, Strathclyde University, Glasgow G1 1XH, Scotland / Tel: 0141 548 4752
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST, IF NOT, THE BEST ORGANIZED RESEARCH WEBSITES
"Selected Internet resources covering all ACADEMIC SUBJECT AREAS"
The URL in the top row of the table below leads to all sections of the site. If you read the text here before going to the site, we think they will help you understand and navigate the site. Essentially this will force you to consider the entire scope of the site before you start clicking on interesting links and thereby get sidetracked from reviewing the site as a whole.
You might also open this window in your browser and open the site in another browser window the first time you visit. In that way, you can always come back to this window to get reoriented
The "home"
or "index" page << http://bubl.ac.uk >> is
basically divided into two areas. You can click through either area to find your subject of interest |
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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z The alphabet blocks at the home page of the site lead to titles
of "subjects" covered
by the site. "D", for instance, covers 50 subjects from "dance" to
dyslexia". Each "subject" is a link to sub-subjects: "dentistry",
for instance leads to 21 sub-subjects including: "Health Science Center:
Baylor College of Dentistry" and "Sports Dentistry Online". Clicking on a sub-subject usually takes you to a website that has information on that sub-subject. Here is a diagram of the four search steps: it might help you understand the path you will be taking if you click through from the home page to a web site: The A-Z blocks are the same on each page of the site. If taken as a set, the subject titles could be used as a basic "universal index" or "controlled vocabulary". |
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Area #2: DDCN |
The numbers shown (000 to 900) are Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers (DDCN) . Clicking on these numbers takes you to sub-numbers and related titles BUBL uses the Dewey Decimal Classification
system as the primary organisation structure
for
its catalogue
of Internet resources. |
000 Generalities: Includes computing, Internet,
libraries, information science 100 Philosophy and psychology: Includes ethics, paranormal phenomena 200 Religion: Includes bibles, religions of the world 300 Social sciences: Includes sociology, politics, economics, law, education 400 Language: Includes linguistics, language learning, specific languages 500 Science and mathematics: Includes physics, chemistry, earth sciences, biology, zoology 600 Technology: Includes medicine, engineering, agriculture, management 700 The arts: Includes art, planning, architecture, music, sport 800 Literature and rhetoric: Includes literature of specific languages 900 Geography and history: Includes travel, genealogy, archaeology |
Main Subject Menus: At the top of the home page you will see a "Subject Menus" link. If you click on that link, you will go to an A-Z list of "Main subject menus". At "D" for instance, you will find four entries -- Dance, Dentistry, Digital libraries and Disability. We have no idea why these subjects were considered to be "Main" or why the list was called a "menu". The "Dentistry" on this "Main ... " list links to the same list as the "dentistry" on the list of subjects (see "Area #1 Titles" above). By the way -- "Disability" on this "Main ... menu" leads to five entries (1) Disability: general ..., (2) Blindness, (3) Deafblind, (4) Deafness and (5) Technology and disability. #1, #3 and #4 of these entires can also be reached from "D" on the home page, while #2 can be reached from "B" on the home page. We can't find #5 in any other place. Also note that there are other disabilities (depression, diabetes, down syndrome and dyslexia) which are reachable from "D" at the home page, but not from "Disability" on the "Main menu". At this point, we are deciding how to meld the list of "A" subjects from Bubl Link into our list of "A" topics at Alphabeticalist. Shall we select the 13 from "Main subject menu", or the 137 from The "A-Z" on the home page? We are going to go with the shorter list, assuming "Main" means they are most important. In any event, viewers at our site can always go to The Bubl Link home page and find the entire list. |
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