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A multi-language free-content online encyclopedia project. Since many people have created the content of the Wikipedia, it has a wide range of information, but the articles are often not edited, it is not always reliable and some instructors may not allow its use for academic work. Cross reference Wikipedia information with other reliable sources and check the entry footnotes.
Encyclopedia.com gives you credible answers from published reference works from Oxford and Columbia university presses.
Helps answer frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.
A blog directory that searches blogs as well as organizes them into categories.
AE 5 .E363 (in all Reference areas, latest in Waldo Library)
The online version is the free version with short articles from the encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year. For full length articles use the print edition.
Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th Edition (1875)
and 10th Edition (1902).
To see a list of print encyclopedias and the online encyclopedias we subscribe to, check out this guide.
For specialized encyclopedias see individual Subject Guides.
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