Specialized Web Search Engines and Web Portals
  • Scholarly articles, research papers and learning resources

    Scholar Google

    Genamic Journal Seek

    BASE

    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 Search

  • 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)

    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)

    Thesaurus.com

    DictionaryBoss

    Kapruka Sinhala Tamil online Dictionary

    Madura Online Dictionary

    English-Tamil/ Tamil-English Dictionary -

  • Translating Tools

    Google translate

    WorldLingo Translate Free Online

    IM translator Prompt Online

    Dictionary.com Translator

  • Online Language Converters

    Google Transliteration

    Tamilcube.com (English to Tamil converter)

  • Photo sharing tools

    Flicker

    Picasa

    ImageSack

  • Presentation sharing tools

    Slideshare

    Slidesnck

  • Online web boxes

    Dropbox

  • File Converters

    Free File Converter

    PDF Converter

    Docx to Doc converter

    Format Factory (video, audio, picture formats to others)

    NCH Software

  • Reference Management Tools

    EasyBib Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker

    Zotero (Instructions for downloading is given below at Reference Management Software – Zotero

    Mendeley

    Plagiarisma.Net

    Duplicate Checker (plagiarism detection tool)

    Plagiarism Detect

    Plagiarism Checker

    Chimsky