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 Encyclopedias and Dictionaries 

Electronic Reference Books
Gale Virtual Reference Library

Full text of over 400 reference books covering a variety of subjects including the arts, education, history, literature, science, social science, and others

   
General Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Americana Online
General encyclopedia
General encyclopedia
Very basic, general encyclopedia

World Book Encyclopedia
GBN Librarians' TOP CHOICE general  encyclopedia
   
Specialized Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Atlases
Includes hour by hour weather, weather history backfile 10 years, over 20 different satellites, many maps (wind, jet stream, uv, ice, and more); no access from home
Almanac of American Politics 2008
Provides results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more; requires password

Lengthy biographies of over 19, 000 significant persons in American culture and history who are no longer living

Associated Press collection of 3.6 million news photographs from 1840s-present, 100,000 graphics, and 4,500 hours of audio from 1920s-present

Grove Dictionary of Art

Comprehensive reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present

Grove Dictionary of Music Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
HRW World Atlas Contains continents/world regions and ocean floor maps
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences  
Lands and Peoples "Accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, and current events"
Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary and Thesaurus Enables user to search either the "Collegiate Dictionary" or the "Collegiate Thesaurus"
OneLook Dictionary Searches for definitions in multiple dictionaries; also includes translations and acronyms
Online Dictionaries and Thesauri Links to several sources, including rhyming, acronym, and other dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary Guide to meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million English words of the last millennium 
Oxford Reference Online Over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press; Oxford Companions; Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Visual Thesaurus
click HERE from home

Interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.