• Artcyclopedia -
  The Fine Art Search Engine
  
• Bartlett's Quotations -
  Familiar Quotations, Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
  
• Britannica Online - School Edition -
  Britannica, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
  
• Credo Reference -
  A digital reference library containing a selection from 169 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers.
  
• Dictionary of Units of Measure -
  Information on specific units of measure.
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online -
  Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
  
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian -
  Directory of all Smithsonian sponsored websites.
  
• Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) -
  
  Provides the full-text of over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords. Updated annually.
  
• Gale Directory Library -
  Contains electronic directories including: Directories in Print, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Associations.
  
• Gale Virtual Reference Library -
  
  More than 2,600 reference e-books in Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, Social Science.
  
• Global Reference Center (Britannica) -
  Online encyclopedias from Britannica in Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
  
• Information Please Almanac -
  
  
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary -
  Merriam-Webster's International Dictionary and 8 other reference works.
  
• Oxford Dictionaries -
  Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
  
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) -
  The authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
  
• Oxford Reference Online -
  Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
  
• Reference Universe -
  An online index to articles in 6000 reference books - both in print and online.
  
• Reference Universe (trial thru 2/21/05) -
  A meta-search of subject encyclopedias in print and online.
  
• Roget's Thesaurus -
  Words grouped by meaning with definitions.
  
• SAGE eReference Encyclopedias -
  Collection of 49 full-text encyclopedias from Sage Publications.
  
• Webster's Dictionary -
  Merriam-Webster Online
  
• World Book Online -
  
  Contains more than 25,000 articles, more than 10,000 pictures & maps, more than10,000 video & sound clips, linked articles to periodicals, & 140,000 editor-approved web sites.
  

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