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Before you start

STEP 1: STARTING OUT

STEP 2: FINDING

Information finding tools

- OPAC

- Internet

- Databases (incl CD Roms)

- Dewey (DDC)

Information sources

- Dictionaries

What is it?

Types

Online

- Encyclopaedias

- Books

- Periodicals/Magazines/Journals

- Newspapers

- Audio-visual

- Internet

- Grey literature

- Broadcast media

- Conference proceedings/reports

- Course-specific resources

- Maps

- Government publications

- Standards

- Museums

- Archives

- Quizz

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: LEGAL USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

Dictionaries

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 underlined words and it will take you to these web sites.

Remember: if the computer you are working on is not linked to the Internet, you will not be able to access these web sites. Find a computer from which you can access the Internet.

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

Quotation dictionaries (not included in the table above)
"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 alphabetic indexes by author, as well as a concordance that cross-references the quotations in over 52,000 entries."