As another academic year draws to a close, the Scout staff thought we would commemorate a fruitful and interesting year of the Scout Report by publishing a Special Edition: Best of 2007-2008. We hope you enjoy reviewing some of the great resources from the past year and, as always, we look forward to continuing to provide our readers with more in the years to come. All the best, Chanda...

SuperPages.com (formerly provided by NYNEX Information Technologies), is a U.S. national yellow pages phone directory of businesses. The user can search by city, state, address, business category, and business name. Results provide name, address, and phone number.

Hosted by the Civil Engineering Library at Lund University (Sweden), this recently updated metasite boasts links to over 1,000 online resources of interest to civil engineers, many of them annotated. Resources are grouped in nine categories, including Research/ Education, Subject-Based Resources, Civil Engineering Journals, Organisations/ Institutes, and Discussion Forums, among others. The site...

Created by TheBrain.com, a visual information management software company, this new site offers a nifty way of browsing the Open Directory Project (ODP) (see the November 20, 1998 Scout Report). With WebBrain's animated interface, users can view their search and browsing results as a dynamic diagram instead of a long list. As with any other site that accesses the ODP, users can browse the...

In 1996 Yahoo! enhanced its search interface to help users more quickly reach the Internet resources they need. Searches return a summary page, which presents hits in four categories: Yahoo Categories, Web Sites, Net Events (from the Yahoo Net Events site) and News (from Reuters, PR Newswire, Business Wire, and UPI). If a search comes up empty in these four categories, it will be referred to the...