Specialized Web Search Engines and Web Portals
Scholarly articles, research papers and learning resources
• Scholar Google
• Genamic Journal Seek
• BASE
• iSEEK
• refSeek
Books
• Google Book Search
• Book Finder
• Amazon
Images, clip arts, PowerPoint templates, backgrounds
• Google Images
• Animation Factory
• Fppt.com
Maps and atlases
• Google Maps
• Worldatlus
Videos
• Internet Archive
• Academic Earth
• YouTube EDU
• TeacherTube
People
• Yahoo People Search
• Find a person
Metasearch engines
• Dogpile
• Metacrawler
• Webcrawler
• Mamma
Reference Materials (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Thesaurus)
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (Sinhala)
• Wikipedia (Tamil)
• Britannica Online
• Webopedia
• Reference.com
• Computer Desktop Encyclopedia
• Direct Delta (Science and Engineering Encyclopedia)
• Entrepreneur (Small Business Encyclopedia)
• Encyclopedia of Mathematics
• Encarta (Online encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas)
• Encyberpedia
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Encyclopedia.com
• Infoplease (Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, biographies, dictionary, thesaurus, reference)
• Accounting Terminology Guide by New York State Society of CPAs
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionary and Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster, Inc.
• FOLDOC (Online dictionary of computing)
• Language Tools by iTools
• OneLook Dictionary Search
• TechEncyclopedia ( IT terms)
• The DICT Development Group Dictionary
• WhatIs (tech dictionary and encyclopedia)
• WordIQ (dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references)
• Thesaurus.com
• DictionaryBoss
• Kapruka Sinhala Tamil online Dictionary
• Madura Online Dictionary
• Sinhala Dictionary Resources online
• English-Tamil/ Tamil-English Dictionary -
Translating Tools
• Google translate
• WorldLingo Translate Free Online
• SDL FreeTranslation
• IM translator Prompt Online
• Dictionary.com Translator
Online Language Converters
• Google Transliteration
• Tamilcube.com (English to Sinhala converter)
• Tamilcube.com (English to Tamil converter)
Information Sharing and Data Backup Tools
Photo sharing tools
• Flicker
• Picasa
• ImageSack
Presentation sharing tools
• Slideshare
• Slideboom
• Slidesnck
Online web boxes
• Dropbox
• CX.com
• Free File Converter
• PDF Converter
• Docx to Doc converter
• Format Factory (video, audio, picture formats to others)
• NCH Software
• EasyBib Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker
• Zotero (Instructions for downloading is given below at Reference Management Software – Zotero
• CiteULike
• Mendeley
• Plagiarisma.Net
• Duplicate Checker (plagiarism detection tool
• Plagiarism Detect
• Plagiarism Checker
• Chimsky