Renardus allows you to find Internet resources selected according to quality criteria and carefully described by Subject Gateways from several European countries. You discover the individual resources and collections by searching and browsing these descriptions (metadata), not the full text of the resources themselves. Having selected the most relevant ones informed by the descriptions you can use the URL's provided to go to the original resources.

A special feature of Renardus is the option to "Browse by Subject" through hierarchical trees of topics and subsequentially to jump to one or several related subcollections of the contributing Subject gateways.

The Renardus partner gateways cover about 64000 predominantly digital web-based resources from within most areas of academic interest, mainly written in English.