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===Capture a web page in ''archive.org''===
*Perhaps you may want to “capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future”. For example, you may want to save a web page which has a family history reference. Use this archive.org link and select [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Save Page Now]
:Does not apply to all websites. Read the [https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#The_Wayback_Machine FAQs: /The Wayback Machine] for more details of the types of webites which cannot be archived.
==Find the meaning of words used in India==
===Scan and edit a document using OCR (Optical Character Recognition)===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116042700/http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/ OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010]. howtogeek.com. OneNote 2010 is included with all edition of Microsoft Office 2010 except for Starter edition. OneNote 2007 is included with Office 2007 Home and Student, Enterprise, and Ultimate.
==Books=====Search for a Library which holds a book you want to read===
*[http://www.worldcat.org Worldcat.org].
*[https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search Library Hub Discover] Search a database of 169 [at 2020/10/14] UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues. An expansion of the previous Copac and SUNCAT services. Includes a keyword search.
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Trove] for Australia. (National Library of Australia)
===Search for books on a particular topic===* See the Library Hub Discover Search above.
*[http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/respubs.php Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)], previously called the Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British History may be of use if you are researching a particular topic and wish to find books written about the topic. As an example, entering East India Company produced over a thousand results, mainly books and articles written in the last forty years. This is now accessed through a subscription service, but is available free at the [[British Library]] as part of the [http://www.bl.uk/eresources/dbstptitles/eresourcesb.html#B Electronic databases available in the Library's Reading Rooms]
===Search for an author's real name===
*''A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain'' by Samuel Halkett and James Laing. 1882-1888.
:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon01halkuoft Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon02halkuoft Vol 2], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon03halkuoft Vol 3], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon04halkuoft Vol 4]. All Archive.org
:''Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature''. New and enlarged editions by James Kennedy, W A Smith and A F Johnson, 7 volumes 1926-1934. Volumes 8 and 9 by Dennis E Rhodes and Anna E C Simoni.
:[https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0001/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 1 A-C] (Book title); [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0002/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 2 D-G]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0003/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 3 H-L]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0004/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 4 M-P], [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0005/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 5 Q-S]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0006/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 6 T- Y]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0007/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 7 Index [of authors<nowiki>]</nowiki> and 2nd Supplement], [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0007/page/306/mode/2up 2nd Index]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0008/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 8 1900-1950] 1956; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0005/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 9 additions for all periods to 1950] 1962. All Archive.org.
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