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SEARCH BY TOPIC |
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Academic references |
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Business, investment, jobs |
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Computers, Internet |
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Education: teacher, student resources |
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Entertainment, transportation, travel |
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Government, law, official documents, statistics |
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Health, fitness,
nutrition, weight, safety |
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Interests: hobbies, lifestyles, social issues |
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Language tools |
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Locating people, organizations, places |
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Shopping: other |
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SEARCH OTHER THAN BY TOPIC |
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Country, language, audience, Internet application |
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File format |
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Search tool abilities |
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Definitions and spellings of terms, abbreviations, acronyms,
etc.
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Meta and all-in-one
search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| OneLook.com |
Parallel searches several dictionaries, does language translation,
and has a reverse dictionary |
www.onelook.com |
| Glossarist.com |
Searchable directory of glossaries and topical encyclopedias |
www.glossarist.com |
| Lagenberg.com |
Dictionaries |
dictionary.langenberg.
com |
| Acronyms |
acronym.langenberg.
com |
| iTools |
Tools to search dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotes, biographies,
translation, etc. |
www.itools.com |
| Profusion |
Acronyms; Dictionaries |
Link no longer active, but you can still consider
the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| AF/Acronym Finder |
Acronyms and abbreviations |
www.acronymfinder.
com/af-query.asp?
String=exact&Acronym
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| AllWords.com |
Substring and multi-lingual dictionary searching |
www.allwords.com |
| Computer-related terms |
Search Tool
Guide: Computers/Internet |
| Dictionary.com |
Multi-lingual dictionaries and thesaurus, language resources |
www.dictionary.com |
| InfoPlease.com |
Almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, and biographies, with
special interfaces for parents, teachers, and kids |
www.infoplease.com |
| Medical Terms |
Search Tool Guide: Health, nutrition, and physical fitness |
| MSN Learning and Research |
Encyclopedia, dictionaries, maps |
beta.encarta.msn.
com/encnet/error
/Error.aspx?mesgid=404 |
| Multilingual.ch |
Glossaries, lexicons, dictionaries, thesauri |
www.multilingual.ch |
| Scholes Library |
Electronic Reference Desk |
scholes.alfred.edu/
ref_desk/ref.html |
| SearchEdu.com |
Dictionaries, thesauri, encylodpediae, almanacs. |
www.searchedu.com |
| Thesaurus.com |
Dictionaries, language translation, and resources |
www.thesaurus.com |
| YourDictionary.com |
Dictionaries in various languages, glossaries by topic,
abbreviations, rhyming, grammar guides, and more |
www.yourdictionary.com |
| Also
see: Search Tool Guide: Academic
references |
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