Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Britannica Online - School Edition - Britannica, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
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.
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.
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.