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Merriam-Webster
provides a free online dictionary,
thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games,
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Answers.com
the ultimate answer engine, with
quick accurate dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech
terms, news, sports, weather, and much more. |
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YourDictionary
is a free online dictionary and
thesaurus with all of the English language features you really
need: definitions, thesaurus, ... |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. | |||
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Encarta encyclopedia, world atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, multimedia collection, and homework tools. | |||
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HighBeam Free online encyclopedia - Search and browse 57000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. | |||
| Databases & e-books | ||||
EBSCO Database |
Thomson
Gale Database
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| Teen Health and Wellness Developed for teens with their unique concerns in mind providing curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs & alcohol, nutrition, mental and emotional health, cy-ber-literacy, family life, sexuality and more. | ||||
| Eureka/Cedrom Francophone resources are available as text or PDF files. Resources are updated daily and contain 20 years of archives. The collection includes national and international newspapers, news wires, audio capsules and radio/television transcripts. The French-language titles are bundled with 20 English-language daily newspapers from across Ontario. | ||||
| Canadian Points of View EBSCO This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. | ||||
| Career Cruising Bilingual database designed to help students plan their future | ||||
| General Reference GALE-High School | ||||
CPLQ
(Canadian Periodical Index) Emphasis
is on Canada, its people, and its history. Aligned to Provincial
learning standards, the database includes reference, periodicals,
primary source, and multimedia resources and nearly one thousand
biographies on famous Canadian |
Academic OneFile is
the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the
world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage
of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences,
the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile
is both authoritative and comprehensive. |
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InfoTrac
Student Edition Full-text
articles and reference. |
Expanded
Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities
to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets
research needs across all academic disciplines. |
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| http://directory.google.com/ - Google | http://dir.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo | |||
| Search Engines | ||||
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Google is a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box. | |||
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Yahoo is a combination search engine and search index to information on the World Wide Web. | |||
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Dogpile is a meta search engine. Dogpile makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one. | |||
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AltaVista provides comprehensive search experience on the Web and online text and web page language translation. | |||
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AskJeeves is a meta search engine which provides results in response to simple question phrases. | |||
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TOPIX.NET News on 360,000 topics. | |||
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LII.ORG Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter. You can also search and browse the website for the best of the Web: 20,000 entries, also maintained by our librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. | |||
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SCIRUS.COM Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 300 million science-specific Web pages | |||
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