Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Reference

AccessScience
Encyclopedia of science and technology; contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news and technology

American National Biography Online

Biography Reference Bank

Britannica Online Academic Edition
Online version of The Encyclopedia Britannica

Britannica Online Japan

Britannica Online Korea

Britannica Pocket Encyclopedia Chinese

Dictionary of National Biography
over 50,000 biographies of British of men and women from earliest times to the end of 2000

Encyclopaedia Universalis, French-Language Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Americana

Encyclopedia Britannica School Edition

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre

Marquis Biographies Online

Oxford African American Studies Center

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Oxford Reference
Full text of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. Includes or has links to full text

Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Spanish Reference Center (Britannica)

Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged

World Book Web