ARCHIVED 4.2.5. Online Search Services
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Online search services can provide you with bibliographic information by giving access to computerized search services in commercial data banks, in the databases mentioned above, or in the catalogues of Canadian libraries registered with GEAC.
Search Engines
You can also perform your own documentary searches on the Internet using search engines, such as those below, and download the documents that will serve as bibliographic references.
For example, the search engine Webcorp searches for occurrences of a sentence, paragraph or entire document by scanning over 200 million URL addresses. Some of its functions include helping users find sources dealing with the same topic as a given text or find its translation, and determine the frequency of certain definitions in a given field.
The search engine Vivísimo can perform queries by key words combined with operators such as + and -, select documents and automatically sort them into folders by topic and subtopic. It is also possible to find specialized glossaries and vocabularies by querying, for example, "glossary + subject field". The document clustering component of Vivísimo and similar software is a very valuable resource for compiling inventories of sources to be used in terminology research.
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