A gateway or directory is a list of web resources. To some extent they have been superseded by search engines, but because the links in a directory will have been deliberately chosen by someone they can still be a valuable means of accessing high quality materials.
3 a - Massey Subject Guides
The Subject Guides on the Massey Library web page are a good example of a gateway
The History and Politics Guide contains advice on locating library resources, as well as links to subscribed reference works and open web sites.
3 b - Te Puna Web Directory and DigitalNZ
The National Library of New Zealand's Te Puna Web Directory is another good example.
It can be browsed
or searched
Although it looks more like a Search Engine I have included DigitalNZ among the directories because it searches a defined set of digital resources.
3 c - Other directories
There are fewer directories on the web than there were a few years ago, and even Google have recently closed theirs. The Internet Public Library still does a good job of bringing together a large amount of "trusted" information.
The Scholarly Societies Project of the University of Waterloo is well worth checking out for a list of academic organisations. It has a good, although not comprehensive, list of New Zealand societies. The Scholarly Societies Project has not been updated since 2009, but they have adopted a policy of listing only those societies with stable domain names.
A pretty reliable one is Arts and Letters Daily (founded by the late Denis Dutton of the University of Canterbury and sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education) which in addition to sampling interesting web articles and reviews contains an extensive list of newspapers, magazines and blogs.
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