St. Agnes College Library and Information Centre
Links for Researchers
Major Search Engines
A Web search engine is a d search engines designed to search for information on the World wide Web. Information may consist of Webpages, images and other types of files.
Google
http://www.google.com
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Microsoft Live Search
http://www.live.com
Ask.com
http://www.ask.com
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
Netscape Search
http://search.netscape.com
Reference and Bibliographical Tool
EndNote – Bibliographies Made Easy – http://www.endnote.com/
Reference Manager
http://www.refman.com
ZOTERO – Is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
https://www.zotero.org
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network
https://www.mendeley.com
Free online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com
https://www.encyclopedia.com
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
MSN Encarta Online Encyclopedia: http://encarta.msn.com/
OpenTopia – Free Online Encyclopedia: http://www.opentopia.com/
Create a survey using Google Forms
https://www.google.com/forms/about/
SurveyMonkey – The basics are always free. Upgrade for more powerful features
https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Osmosis
https://www.getosmosis.com/
Free online Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Online : https://www.merriam-webster.com/
The free dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nary
Free Online Dictionaries: http://www.freedict.com
Dictionary.com:
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Freebyte’s Guide to…Free Dictionaries: http://www.freebyte.com/dictionary/
Subject Gateways
Data Analysis Softwares
- Elki
- R
- ETALASSI
- TANAGRA
- WAFFLES
- WEKA
- DATA APPLIED
- RAPIDMINOR
- PAW
Open Theses
Open Access Theses and Dissertations –
OATD – https://oatd.org
OpenThesis: Upload and Search Theses and Dissertations – www.openthesis.org
PQDT Open – pqdtopen.proquest.com
Free Dissertations/Theses – Library of Congress
Find Dissertations – University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
Open Theses
Shodhganga-Indian ETDs (INFLIBNET)
Etd@IISc: IISc Repository of Theses and Dissertations
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Etheses – A Saurashtra University Library Service : http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/directory.html