How to Find Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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- 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.
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- 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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- Research Guides - List dictionaries and encyclopedias by subject area.
- Library Catalog - Search library catalog for dictionaries or encyclopedias.