Subject Directory

I went with the INFOMINE for the subject directory.  I all so looked at many others on the list.  The difference between this and a regular search tool is that the subject directory is created by real people who read, select and add websites to databases.  The databases are also smaller. The regular search engines like Yahoo! send out bots or programs to collect websites for their databases. 

What I found in the subject directory was a concise list of information.  A lot of it was in alphabetical order, it was written by scholars, had data that could be back up by facts and automatically highlighted key words.  It was very open to Boolean operators.  I put in a search phrase and no cites came up.  I just put in a parenthesis and 50 cites popped up.  The  advance search tool was amazing.  You could search in fields by author, keywords, full text, subject, myinformine.  Then you could search the subject in categories like MapsGIS, PhySciEngrCS, Ejournals, just to name a few.  You could go deeper to limit the search, display options, browse options, and more.  I am astounded at the difference and how much easier it was to obtain detailed information on a subject.  This is a great tool and I will use the subject directory in research that I will be doing in the future.