Free Online Encyclopedias and Internet Libraries
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General
AllRefer - organised by subject areas including health channel
Answers - offers downloadable 'instant answer link'
Columbia Encyclopedia - nearly 51,000 entries
Encyclopedia.com - online resource with further access to the Columbia Encyclopedia via
High Beam Research - contains a mix of free and subscription resources
Infoplease - Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
MSN Encarta - Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas and Homework
Questia - 'The world's largest online library; books, journals, magazines, newspapers,
encyclopedia
Wikipedia - A free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Main categories: Culture,
Geography,
History, Life, Mathematics, Science, Society and Technology.
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Specialist Encyclopedias
EH.Net - Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History for students and laymen.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics - 172 chapters freely downloadable
Encyclopedia of Psychology - listing of further resources
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - free, academic, comprehensive resource
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences - The largest reference work
ever published for the social and behavioral sciences.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Statistical Resources on the Web - hundreds of categories of statistics
Texas A & M University Horticulture - extensive gardening and horticulture information
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Other Reference
British Library -
BUBL Link - catalogue of internet resources covering all academic subject areas
City Business Library - leading business information source; directories, market reports,
books, periodicals, newspapers, CD-ROMS and internet sources. No membership req'mts.
Internet Public Library
London School of Economics - one of the world's largest economics and social sciences libraries
Public Library of Science - freely available scientific and medical literature resource
RefDesk - comprehensive source of facts and 'info of the day'
The Library of Congress - comprehensive research resource, online galleries, etc
Science Direct - Elsevier collection of science, technology and medicine information
Smithsonian Online - magazine, information search, images
US Government's Official Web Portal - index for all US government departments
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