Knowledge: encyclopedias
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- World Book Encyclopedia
http://www.worldbook.com/ - Online version of the complete reference work along with dictionary, atlas, links, magazines, historical documents, audio, video, images, and 3D photographs. Requires free temporary registration with option to buy continued access for full articles.
- The Probert Encyclopaedia
http://www.probert-encyclopaedia.co.uk/ - Reference source with several hypertext linked entries covering a broad variety of subjects.
- Encyberpedia
http://www.encyberpedia.com/cyberlinks/links/index.html - Electronic encyclopedia with its own content as well as over 10,000 links to the best reference sites on the Internet.
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm - Links to on-line Smithsonian resources and answers to frequently asked questions from A to Z.
- The LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/ - Browsable. Based on the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911.
- How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - Articles explain how hundreds of things work, from elements of the human body to space-age technology.
- HighBeam Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/ - Free resource offers more than 50,000 concise articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
- Wikinfo
http://www.wikinfo.org/ - User edited encyclopedia based on Wiki software. Contains articles, information on editing, and a list of differences between this encyclopedia and Wikipedia.
- 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/ - Offers the 11th Edition Encyclopedia Britannica which is now in the public domain. All articles are searchable and alphabetized.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
http://www.britannica.com/ - Provides complete text of Encyclopaedia Britannica with search capabilities, related links, and multimedia enhancements. Full text for subscribers only; free trial available.
- Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/ - Approximately 14,000 entries on topics including art, geography, literature, philosophy, religion. Originally published in 1907.
- Britannica Concise
http://concise.britannica.com/ - Featuring 28,000 short articles.
- Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/ - Includes the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, dictionaries, thesauri, and more.
- MSN Encarta Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/ - Online home of the Encarta encyclopedia, world atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, multimedia collection, and homework tools.
- Hutchinson Encyclopedia
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/ - "A subset of the content (concise set) is provided for free, the access to the rest of the Hutchinson Encyclopedia requires subscription."
- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software. (GNU Free Documentation License) and with over 1,000,000 articles. Note that because articles can be "vandalized," information on Wikipedia is not always accurate.
- Simple English Wikipedia
http://simple.wikipedia.org/ - User-contributed online encyclopedia intended for people whose first language is not English.
- Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/ - On-Line dictionary, Internet encyclopedia, and almanac reference.
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