Dictionaries & Glossaries
Libraries & Other Information Sites
Search Engines & Directories
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Dictionaries & Glossaries |
A Web
of Online Dictionaries based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R)
Dictionary, Tenth Edition and linked to more than 800 dictionaries
in 150 different languages.
Internet &
Technology Glossary is a great place to go when you run into a
word about the Internet or technology that you don't know.
Hypertext
Webster Gateway - Go to this site to find out what a word means.
Type it in and hit the Return key... and voila, you have the
definition.
Research
It! Your One-Stop Reference Desk - This is an amazing site that
has every kind of a search or reference tool ready to use right on
this one page.
Wordsmyth English
Dictionary-Thesaurus "Dr. Robert Parks, and the ARTFL Project at
the University of Chicago, announce the availability of full
dictionary and thesaurus look-up services on the world wide web.
With over 100,000 entries and 50,000 headwords, The Wordsmyth
English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) is a full dictionary AND a
complete thesaurus, integrated into one work. So you only need to
look up a word once, with hyperlinks to synonyms, and similar or
related words available where appropriate. This makes the dictionary
into a true "web of words", useful for reference, for brainstorming,
and for following your semantic intuitions to build your own
semantic network."
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Libraries and Other Information Sites |
Cybrary of the Holocaust
Journals, links, and photographs on the Holocaust.
Library Web
Manager's Reference Center, The
This excellent site has lots of articles and links to assist the web
librarian.
School
Library Hotspots
This super site has extensive links in the following categories:
instruction; materials, sources, & reviews; reference; literature;
and other recommended library links.
Library of Congress World Wide Web
Includes government databases and info that include Congressional
documents (current and past), legislative process (including The
U.S. Constitution), legislative branch Internet sites, and
government Internet Resources.
World Wide Web Virtual
Library
Can search by grade levels, alphabetical, type, resources, country.
Excellent links and search capability.
CNN Interactive includes
information on the latest news around the world, sports, weather,
etc.
The Smithsonian Institution is all
that you would hope that it would be. Be prepared to spend lots of
time here!
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Search Engines and Directories |
Search
Utilities
Search Engines
An article with links on new views of searching the web. Did you
know that search engines are now considered "portals"?
Alta
Vista
This is the most powerful search engine available! Make sure
that you use the Advanced Search and use Boolean search strategies.
Ask Jeeves for Kids
"Ask Jeeves for Kids(tm) is the fastest and easiest way to find
answers to questions. Ask Jeeves for Kids allows you to ask a
question in plain English and, after interacting with you to confirm
the question, Ask Jeeves for Kids takes you to one and only one web
site that answers your question."
DogPile
This search utility has 13 metasearch engines and search engines. It
also searches Usenets. FTP, and more.
Excite or
Excite
Power Search
If you don't know how to do Boolean searches yet, use the Excite
Power Search. It will walk you through the process without needing
to know any specific commands or other tricks. It is very straight
forward.
Goggle!
This is a new search engine from Stanford. Give it a whirl! Many are
really enjoying it.
InfoSeek or
InfoSeek Advanced Search
The InfoSeek Advanced Search is also has a very simplified way of
doing powerful Boolean searches without needing to know all the
commands.
Lycos
Metacrawler
This is a metasearch utility that uses seven (7) search engines.
It sorts and priortizes the results based on how close the hits
match your search query. This is where I begin my searches.
WebCrawler
Yahoo!
This is a search directory which is different than a search
engine.
Yahooligans for Kids
Search engine for kids that includes the following categories:
Around the World, Art Soup, School Bell, & The Scoop (current news).
Search Resources and Helpful Information
Findspot
Selected
Search Engines
This site has many links to a wide variety of search engines and
meta search engines including Dog Pile!
Search Engines, Indexes,
Directories, & Libraries
Learn more about WWW search engines and about Boolean search logic
with an online tutorial. This site has rated search engines and has
links to more of them than you even knew existed!
The Spider's Apprentice
- How to Search with Web Engines
"How to get
the most from *search engines like AltaVista, *Infoseek, *Excite,
Webcrawler, *Lycos, HotBot, and the *Yahoo Directory."
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