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Main Contents Page
Before you start
STEP 1: STARTING out
STEP 2: FINDING
Searching techniques:
- Boolean Logic
- Truncation/wildcards
- Phrase searching
Information finding tools:
- OPAC
- Webbridge
- Databases (incl CD Roms)
- Internet
- Dewey (DDC)
Information sources:
- Dictionaries
What is it?
Types
Online
- Encyclopaedias
- Atlases
- Almanacs & yearbooks
- Books
- Periodicals/Journals
- Newspapers
- Audio-visual
- Internet
- Grey literature
- Broadcast media
- Conference proceedings
- Maps
- Government publications
- Standards
- Museums
- Archives
- Quiz
STEP 3: EVALUATE
STEP 4: Legal and ethical USE
STEP 5: COMMUNICATE
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Online dictionaries
Not only do we have dictionaries in paper format, but there are also
many online dictionaries available.
The examples below are online dictionaries. Click on the words to access
these web sites.
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INTERNET LINKS: if the computer is not linked to the
Internet, you will not be able to access these web sites. |
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Oxford
English dictionary online |
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Cambridge
dictionaries online |
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Language
dictionaries, multi-lingual dictionaries, speciality dictionaries,
the Endangered Language Repository - the sanctuary for endangered
languages on the World Wide Web, and more |
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Online
Medical & Science dictionaries |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Bartleby.com reinvents for 2001 the Tenth Edition of Bartlett's, which now features a new search of 11,000 quotations and footnotes, chronologic and alphabetical indexes by author, as well as concordance that cross-references the quotations in over 52,000 entries |
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