Virtual Reader

LATIN and  OLD ENGLISH Dictionaries

LATIN
Latin and Grammar Aid. University of Notre Dame
Type in the form of the word that you would expect to find in a dictionary or a truncated form of the word (e.g., stem only). 15,600 words.
http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm

Perseus (Lewis & Short)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin

Dictionary of Medieval Latin for Celtic Sources
Royal Irish Academy
http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/DMLCS/index.html
The List takes the form of a browsable, lemmatized, alphabetical list consisting mostly of two kinds of words: vocabulary that is foreign to Classical Latin and would not be found in a standard Latin dictionary, and Classical vocabulary that appears in unusual forms in our texts.
List of sources in the same site: http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/dmlcs/frameset_links.html
Celtic texts, old English.

OLD ENGLISH
The Dictionary of Old English. Centre for Medieval Studies University of  Toronto.
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.
http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/
List of sources in the same site: http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/links.html Anglo Saxon, Old English, manuscripts, resources.
     

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ONLINE RESEARCH TOOLS &
WEBSITE ASSESSMENT

Categories: Search Engines - Collection Methods - Custom Made Engines
A collection of web resources for the English Literature student

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Search Engines: General

Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, Invisible Web, People & Organisations

Exeter University Library

http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/internet/search.html

Search Engines: Targeted scope of search

Google Book Search

http://books.google.com/

Search on pages of specific languages or countries

Google Language Tools

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Google University Search

http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

Google Directory: Reference - Machine indexed directory

Includes: Biography, Museums, Style Guides

Home Page: http://directory.google.com/

Reference: http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/

Google Advanced Search

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Google Advanced Search Tutorial

http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Google Advanced Operators –Search Engine Syntax

http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

The Open Directory Project - Human-edited directory

Home Page: http://dmoz.org/

Search Engines: Results Refiners

Results classified in categories

http://search.ask.com

http://vivisimo.com/

Results shown as a map

http://www.kartoo.com

Manual Rating of Results

http://www.ujiko.com

Search Engines: Custom Made

http://rollyo.com (create a list of 25 sites maximum/shared with other users)

http://lushe.net (add a button in your browser)

Search Engines Assessment

Primary Data Collection Methods

-Web Crawling

-Human Indexing

Brian Kelly reviews the search engines provided on UK University web sites.

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/webwatch/

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Website Assessment

Evaluating Website Content

Trash or Treasure? How to Evaluate Internet Resources

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/eval.html

Evaluating Website content

http://www.studygs.net/evaluate.htm

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

How does google rank webpages? A Link popularity checker

http://www.mypagerank.net/service_linkpopularity_index

Checking for dead links in a website

http://www.dead-links.com/

Finding the sites that link to a page (Alternative way to access the Invisible Web)

http://wholinkstome.com/

http://www.mypagerank.net/service_link_check_index

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The Invisible Web or Deep Web

Definition:

Newspaper article. Guardian, Search for the Invisible Web by Chris Sherman , Sep 6 2001

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,547140,00.html

A tutorial

UC Berkeley Library

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

A list of Invisible Web search engines

Search Engine Watch (A Search Engines Portal)

http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156181

Major Invisible Web Search Engines (including Pdf format)

The University of Wales - Aberystwyth

http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/academicliaison/internet/invisible.asp

Recommended Search Strategies

UC Berkeley Library

Analyze your topic & Search with peripheral vision

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html

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