Encyclopaedias

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General and Multidisciplinary
Atlapedia Online
Contains physical and political maps, plus facts, figures, and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy and related topics.

Columbia Encyclopaedia Bartleby.com
A full-text searchable version of the Columbia Encyclopaedia, 6th Edition.

Encarta
Browse by category or search more than 4,500 encyclopaedia articles. Also includes an English dictionary and an atlas.

Encyclopaedia.com
Search or browse more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition.

InfoPlease
Searchable versions of general, entertainment and sports almanacs; an English language dictionary, atlas and the Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition.

Online Classic Encyclopaedia
An online version of the classic 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with articles written by recognized authorities of the day. A good source for historical information that is still relevant today.

World Fact Book
Maps and detailed information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and trans-national issues for countries worldwide.

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Arts and Humanities
Age of Fable: or Beauties of Mythology Bartleby.com
The complete text of Bulfinch's 1913 guide to Greek, Roman, Norse and other mythologies, also including tales of King Arthur and legends of Charlemagne.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature: an Encyclopaedia in Eighteen Volumes Bartleby.com
Literary history and criticism with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays to history, theology, and political writing. Encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.

Encyclopaedia Mythica
A searchable online encyclopaedia on world mythology, folklore, and legend.

Encyclopaedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bartleby.com
Comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.

Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
A searchable collection of articles from a variety of sources; includes a "Timeline of Western Philosophy."

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Billed as "the first dynamic encyclopaedia," this refereed resource includes a table of contents and is searchable by keyword or phrase. New entries and updates to existing entries are added on a continuing basis by a select group of experts in the field.

Business

EH.Net Encyclopaedia of Economic and Business History
Provides reference articles written by experts in the field. Search or browse by keyword.

Social Sciences and Law

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopaedia Cornell Law Library
A compilation of United States and international legal resources arranged by subject or jurisdiction.

Country Studies: Area Handbook Series Library of Congress
Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

EH.Net Encyclopaedia of Economic and Business History
Provides reference articles written by experts in the field. Search or browse by keyword.

Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics
A survey of law & economics literature with each entry containing two elements: a review of the literature written by an authority in the field, and a bibliography.

Encyclopaedia of Psychology
Includes original information generated by researchers and practitioners in various fields of psychology and a hierarchical database of links to websites providing information about scientific psychology.

Zimmerman's Research Guide: An Online Encyclopaedia for Legal Researchers
Provides an online alphabetic listing of legal terms and concepts with links to suggested sources for researching the topic. The guide is also searchable by keyword and phrase.

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