Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

(Oxford Reference Online) Features concise entries providing essential information on a range of subjects, including world affairs, science and technology, the arts, modern and ancient history, religion, sports, and popular culture.

(EBSCOHost) Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Features over 1,200 entries of contributions from over seven hundred experts from around the world; a bibliography of over 10,000 citations.

A free online encyclopedia featuring premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

With more than 1,000 entries, this resource is packed with essential and up-to-date information on the state of business in our world.

Features 850 articles addressing topics in K-12 and higher education, policy and legislation, educational organizations, learning and instruction, out-of-school influences, teacher preparation, and testing. There are also 121 biographies of education figures.

Over 300,000 alternative and opposite words are available in this online searchable thesaurus.

Merriam-Webster's database contains 225,000 entries, including more than 10,000 new words and definitions.

(Oxford Reference Online) Bilingual dictionaries for English paired with the following: French, German, Spanish, Irish, Italian, Latin and Welsh.

Provides access to several resources in the subject of Science. They may be searched together or by specific title. Titles include: A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Chemistry, The Oxford Companion to Medicine, A Dictionary of Physics, and The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine.

Contains rhymes for 45,000 words, including proper names, place names, and foreign terms used in English.