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Art Cyclopedia
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. Indexes over 2,300 art sites, and offer over 95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 renowned artists.
BooksInPrint.com Professional
Largest, unbiased, web-based bibliographic resource in the U.S. Browse over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Bestsellers, award winners, read reviews, or search titles by your favorite author. Available only at library locations.
Britannica Online Public Library Edition
Access for children and young adults, and Britannica Reference Center for older students and adults. Contents include encyclopedia articles, magazines and journals, websites, multimedia, dictionary and thesaurus entries. Additional content sources include World Data Analyst and Notable Quotations.
Dictionary of American History
This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Covers Canadians who died (or whose last activity was) between the year 1000 through the early 20th century. Search biographies by keyword or browse an alphabetical index. Also available in French. From the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada.
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
A comprehensive, subject specific guide to the history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security, with special emphasis placed on the current ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding this very topical subject.
Encyclopedia of Population 2v, 2003
Coverage of demographic topics both in the core field and in neighboring disciplines. Designed to encompass the large-scale changes in emphasis and research directions in population studies during the last 20 years, topics covered include: rapid demographic expansion in poor countries; low fertility rates and problems of old-age support; the environmental impact of a dense population; the press for expanded reproductive rights; and much more.
Encyclopedia of Television
Browse the alphabetical index of 1,000+ original that examines specific programs and people as well as general historic moments and trends. Topics include violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal as well as histories of major American television networks.
Fact Monster
Search a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas and almanac at the same time. Good site when you just need a small amount of information on a topic.
Free Dictionary, The
Online dictionary covering the English language as well as computing, financial, legal, and medical terminology, acronyms and idioms, and the Columbia and Wikipedia Encyclopedias.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v,...
8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns. Also covers ethno-religious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans, and Amish. Each essay lists organizations and research centers; name, address, and contact information for periodicals, radio, and television stations; and a further readings section.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
Addresses such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.
Information Please
Comprehensive and engaging online almanac, from the publishers of the famous Information Please book almanac, provides users with reliable information in a wide range of categories.
InvestorWords.com
Glossary of investment terms that includes 6000+ definitions and 20,000 links between related terms. Search by keyword or browse an alphabetical listing.
Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
Merriam-Webster Online
Online dictionary based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
This definitive English language guide provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. The usage of words is traced through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The dictionary is updated quarterly with between one and two thousand new and revised entries.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
This resource offers fully-searchable, accurate, up-to-date bilingual dictionaries for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. It includes a pronunciation feature that allows users to hear how words sound as well as other language learning and usage tools.