ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

• Encarta
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia.com
• IT Tech Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Compton's Encyclopedia Online
• Argus Clearinghouse
• Best Information on the Net
• Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table
• Information Please Home Page
• Internet Public Library's Ready Reference
• My Virtual Reference Desk: Ask An Expert
• Cyclopaedia
  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu ... lopaediaAbout.shtml
• Educypedia
  http://www.educypedia.be/
• Encarta
  http://encarta.msn.com/
• Encyclopedia Britannica
  http://www.britannica.com/
• Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture
  http://www.cajunculture.com/
• Encyclopedia of Earth
  http://www.eoearth.org/
• Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
  http://www.massviolence.org/
• Encyclopedia of Revolutions of 1848
  http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/contents.htm
• Encyclopedia of the Orient
  http://lexicorient.com/e.o/
• Encyclopedia.com
  http://www.encyclopedia.com/
  
  
  

DICTIONARIES and THESAURI:

• American Heritage Dictionary
• Biography.com
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Ectaco English Arabic English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Wordsmyth: the Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
• Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
• Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
• Acronym Finder
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Unified Medical Dictionary [English-Arabic-English]
• A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
• Merriam Webster Online
• abbreviations
  http://www.abbreviations.com/
• Alpha Dictionary
  http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml
• Ask Oxford
  http://www.askoxford.com/
• Behind the Name
  http://www.behindthename.com/
• BusinessDictionary
  http://www.businessdictionary.com/
• DictSearch
  http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm
• Dictionary.com
  http://dictionary.reference.com/
• Disabiliites Dictionary
  http://www.brookespublishing.com/dictionary/index.htm
• Explanation Guide
  http://explanation-guide.info/index.html
• Factbites
  http://www.factbites.com/index.html
  
  
  
• Free Dictionairies Project
  http://dicts.info/
• Glossarist
  http://www.glossarist.com/
• Grandiloquent Dictionary
  http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm
• Howjsay
  http://www.howjsay.com/
• Hyper Dictionary
  http://www.hyperdictionary.com/
• Lingro
  http://lingro.com/
• Merriam-Webster Online
  http://www.m-w.com/
• ODLIS
  http://lu.com/odlis/index.cfm
• One Look Dictionary Search
  http://www.onelook.com/
• Online Classic Encyclopedia
  http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/
• Online Etymology Dictionary
  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a
• Opentopia
  http://www.opentopia.com/
• Real Estate WORDS
  http://www.realestatewords.com/

GUIDES, DIRECTORIES, Maps and other tools:

• Librarians' Index to Internet
• Internet Public Library
• Atlapedia Online
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks Series
• MapQuest [International interactive street guide]
• Perry-Castaueda Library Map Collection
• Fast Facts: Almanacs, Factbooks, Statistical Reports

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