Electronic
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Artcyclopedia -
The Fine Art Search Engine
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Bartlett's Quotations -
Familiar Quotations, Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
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Britannica Online - School Edition -
Britannica, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
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Credo Reference -
A digital reference library containing a selection from 169 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers.
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Dictionary of Units of Measure -
Information on specific units of measure.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online -
Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian -
Directory of all Smithsonian sponsored websites.
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Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) -
Provides the full-text of over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords. Updated annually.
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Gale Directory Library -
Contains electronic directories including: Directories in Print, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Associations.
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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.
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Global Reference Center (Britannica) -
Online encyclopedias from Britannica in Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
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Information Please Almanac -
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary -
Merriam-Webster's International Dictionary and 8 other reference works.
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Oxford Dictionaries -
Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
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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.
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Oxford Reference Online -
Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
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Reference Universe -
An online index to articles in 6000 reference books - both in print and online.
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Reference Universe (trial thru 2/21/05) -
A meta-search of subject encyclopedias in print and online.
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Roget's Thesaurus -
Words grouped by meaning with definitions.
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SAGE eReference Encyclopedias -
Collection of 49 full-text encyclopedias from Sage Publications.
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Webster's Dictionary -
Merriam-Webster Online
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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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- Subject Guides
- List dictionaries and encyclopedias by subject area.
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catalog for dictionaries or encyclopedias.
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