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Britannica Academic Edition (Britannica)
An Encyclopedia covering over 75,000 articles including 23,000 biographies. An introduction to significant works of history, literature, philosophy, and science. Access 166,000 Web sites. Search thousands of maps, flags, articles, and statistics. Compare economic, demographic, and health measures for over 200 countries.
Encyclopedia Americana (Grolier)
An Encyclopedia covering articles, biographies, history, literature, philosophy, and science. Search thousands of maps, flags, articles, dictionaries and statistics.
Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford)
Contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. 20th Edition.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Grolier)
Includes encyclopedia articles, news, timelines, quizzes and games, and research starters. It also includes an atlas and dictionary.
New Book of Knowledge (Grolier)
Reference and current events for elementary school and higher.
Oxford English Dictionary Online (Oxford)
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Statesman's Yearbook (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Statesman's Yearbook includes reliable information on every country in the world, covering key historical events, population, etc....
World Almanac (FirstSearch)
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Offers a fundamental reference source of biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.