2. How to Search Your Target Material?
1. Books References
2. Papers References
3. Wikipedia References
4. Google Books
5. Handbook of…
6. An Introduction of…
7. A Companion to …
8. www.citefast.com 2
3. How to Get Books?
1. www.b-ok.org (books, papers)
https://pk1lib.org/
2. Bookfi.net http://en.bookfi.net/s/?q=corpus+building&t=0
3. Library Genesis http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
4. Archive.org (text, web, audio, software)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=corpus%20linguistics
5. www.jurn.org (chapters, theses, papers)
6. Gutenberg.org (Literature, fiction etc) (file is sent to Google
drive) https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf
7. Hathitrust; https://www.hathitrust.org/
8. Books.google.com (only readable) 3
4. How to Get Research Papers?
1.www. Scholar.Google.com
2.www.b-ok.org (articles)
https://booksc.org/
3. Sci-hub (get paid papers free)
https://sci-hub.tw/
4. http://cogprints.org/view/subjects.html
5. http://jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0
6. www.academia.edu (some are downloadable)
7. HEC Digital library; http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/
8. Sage, Jstore, Springer, Elsevier, Routledge, Oxford, Cambridge, Taylor
& Francis 4
5. How to Get Theses/ Dissertations?
1.Proquest.com
https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html
2.http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishl
anguage/research/resources/essays/tefltesl.aspx
3. (Register, the site will mail you the link of the thesis)
http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/1057
4.http://www.dissertations.se/about/teaching+English/ (PhD
dissertations full download)
5. Pakistan Research Repository: http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/simple-
search?filterquery=Social+Sciences&filtername=subject&filtertype=
equals
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6. Stay Up to Date Second by Second
1. Create Google Scholar alert
2. www.netvibes.com (Create dash board (your topic)
3. Follow Twitter, Linkedin, Social media; www.academia.com group or fields
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7. Learn from Videos
1. MOOC
2. http://mooc.org/
3. Coursera
4. Youtube
5. University lectures
6. Download Torch Browser to download videos
7. Webinars/ Zoom sessions
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8. Thanks a lot
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