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e-Reference Tools

Dictionaries / Encyclopedias / More

DICTIONARIES

American Heritage Book of English Usage
(http://www.bartleby.com/64/

Merriam-Webster Online: Dictionary & Thesaurus
(http://www.m-w.com/)

Roget's Thesaurus
(http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html)

WWW Acronym and Abbreviation Server
(http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html)

Yahoo Language Dictionaries
Links to Web-based dictionaries of many languages.

yourDictionary.com
(http://www.yourdictionary.com)

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Some online encyclopedias are available free on the Internet, but tend to be loaded with advertising. Others are available through the Library Databases Page -- password required.

Access Science @ McGraw Hill
Online version of the distinguished McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Available on the Library Databases page - password required.

Columbia Encyclopedia
(http://www.bartleby.com/65/)
A short-answer encyclopedia with 51,000 references and extensive linked cross-references.

Encyclopedia Britannica
(http://www.britannica.com/)
Short summary articles are available free on the Internet at the above address. Lesley students may log in to the complete encyclopedia in the Library Databases page - password required.

General Reference Center
Use General Reference Center to find articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, magazines and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Available on the Library Databases page - password required.

MSN Encarta Encyclopedia
(http://encarta.msn.com/)
Encarta offers encyclopedia articles, with links to dictionary entries, maps, images, and video clips, as well as timely feature stories..

MORE E-REFERENCE TOOLS

Yahoo Reference
(http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/)
Yahoo provides an extensive directory of e-reference tools on the Web.

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