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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Almanacs |
(Compiled by Vicki Wright. All rights reserved. 8/00)
Encyclopedias
Britannica.com
includes the complete, updated Encyclopędia Britannica, the oldest and largest
general reference in the English language. Selected articles from more than 70
of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The
Economist--provide additional feature and current-events coverage. Our guide to
the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search
the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information.
Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - Not only is the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th
edition the largest one-volume general encyclopedia available, its year 2000
publication date makes it the most timely and up-to-the minute encyclopedic
reference source available. With over 50,000 article entries, 40,000
bibliographic citations, and over 80,000 cross-reference entries.
Encarta Your
gateway to 16,000 articles, multimedia, a dictionary, and a world atlas.
Encyclopedia.com
- the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia! This site conveniently places an
extraordinary amount of information at your fingertips. More than 14,000
articles have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information on
almost any topic.
The Eyewitness
Encyclopedia offers all the content of Dorling Kindersley's acclaimed
Eyewitness Guides on the Internet. Now you can access all the pictorial and
textual content of this learning resource as and when you need it, and use it
for your own research and study purposes.
The
Funk and Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia - Descriptive, understandable and
updated articles from the leading online encyclopedia embedded with colorful and
informative media.
Knowledge
Adventure Encyclopedia - From here, you can access information on a variety
of really cool subjects right from your computer. It's a great homework helper!
Dictionaries/Thesaurus
Dictionary.com online
dictionary and thesaurus
Meriam
Webster Dictionary and thesaurus
Roget's
Thesaurus
Word
Central Student Dictionary
Almanacs
Infoplease Kids' Almanac
- The creators of the wonderful Information Please Almanac have introduced a
version of this resource just for kids. It includes an on-line dictionary,
encyclopedia, a homework center, "today in history," and a word of the
day. An excellent starting place for students!
Bibliography