Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross for 1862 and 1866 are online at Google Books. On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is a transcription of the 1862 edition.

Many Scottish directories can be read and downloaded at the National Library of Scotland's Scottish Directories pages. They are also available in different download formats at the Internet Archive texts (search for 'scottishdirectories').

There are short commercial listings for Cupar, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy in Holden's Annual Directory 1811 available on CD from S&N Genealogy Supplies.

Pigot's National Commercial Directory for the whole of Scotland, 1837, is online at the Scottish Directories pages, at Google Books. The Fife & Forfarshire sections are available on CD from S&N Genealogy Supplies.

Slater's 1852 Directory of Scotland is available on microfiche from The Parish Chest.

Slater's 1861 Directory of Scotland is at the Scottish Directories pages.

Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross for 1862 and 1866 are online at Google Books. On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is a transcription of the 1862 edition.

Worrall's Directory of the North-Eastern counties of Scotland, comprising the counties of Forfar, Fife, Kinross, Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine, 1877, is at the Scottish Directories pages.

Slater's 1878 Directory of Scotland is at the Scottish Directories pages.

Slater's 1886 Directory of Scotland is at the Scottish Directories pages.

Slater's 1903 Directory of Scotland (vol. 1) is at the Scottish Directories pages.

Many Fife residents will be found in the County Directory of Scotland, at the Scottish Directories pages. Editions for 1862, 1868, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1882-85, 1886-9, 1893-6 and 1901-4 are available online there. The 1912 edition is available on CD from the Scottish Genealogy Society. [The series started as Directory to Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, etc. in Scotland, then became the Directory to Gentlemen's Seats ... . Editions for 1843, 1852 and 1857 are also at the Scottish Directories pages. These volumes are very useful in locating farms and country houses.]

You can download a list of directories held by Fife Council libraries.

• A useful guide is D.R.Torrance's Scottish Trades, Professions, Vital Documents & Directories, published by the Scottish Association of Family History Societies.
• Pigot and Co.'s New Commercial Directory of Scotland, 1825-26.
• The West Coast Directory, 1885-86 - Public Officials, Society Office-Bearers relating to the Counties and Burghs of the West Coast of Scotland,and Alphabetical List of Householders, along with Street Lists and Useful Miscellaneous Tables.
• Macdonald's Scottish Directory and Gazetteer, 1933-34, accompanied with Railway Map and Plans and County Supplement.
• Scottish Post Office Directories - By the late 19th century the Post Office became the major directory publisher and the directories are nowadays generally referred to as Post Office directories, whether issued by the Post Office or private publishers. Over 700 digitised directories covering most of Scotland and dating from 1773 to 1911 are available.

• UK & Ireland - Directories - links and information.