Dictionaries

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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

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.

  INTERNET LINKS: if the computer is not linked to the Internet, you will not be able to access these web sites.  
  Oxford English dictionary online  
  Cambridge dictionaries online  
  Language dictionaries, multi-lingual dictionaries, speciality dictionaries, the Endangered Language Repository - the sanctuary for endangered languages on the World Wide Web, and more  
  Online Medical & Science dictionaries  
  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