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

15 Educational Search Engines College Students Should Know About

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/

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

CalTech Electronic Theses and Dissertations