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Britannica Online - School Edition- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Britannica, Comptons, and Britannica Elementary encyclopedias with learning materials, teaching resources and other educational resources.
Credo Reference- Full Text Available
A digital reference library containing a selection from 169 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
Gale Directory Library- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Contains electronic directories including: Directories in Print, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Associations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
More than 300 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)- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Online encyclopedias from Britannica in Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary (unabridged)- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Merriam-Webster's International Dictionary and 8 other reference works.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
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 Language Dictionaries Online- Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Oxford Reference Online- Remote Access Available
Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
World Book Online - Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Contains >25,000 articles, >10,000 pictures & maps, 10,000 video & sound clips, linked articles to periodicals, & 140,000 editor-approved web sites.
Selected Websites
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.
Dictionary of Units of Measure-
Information on specific units of measure.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian-
Directory of all Smithsonian sponsored wesites.
Roget's Thesaurus-
Words grouped by meaning with definitions.
Webster's Dictionary-
Merriam-Webster Online