Electronic Encyclopedias
- Access Science Access Science is the online edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Limited to 8 simultaneous users.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Includes growing set of research tools: Gateway to the Classics ; Quotable Quotes; Timelines and more. This resource was acquired with funds from the the Library/IT Assessment.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Encyclopedia articles and biographies in a variety of subject areas. Updated annually.
- World Encyclopedia
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Electronic Dictionaries and Thesauri
- American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms
- American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Roget's II The New Thesaurus
- Visual Thesaurus Online thesaurus and dictionary that you explore using an interactive map. Use this link for on-campus access. This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.
Electronic Reference Collections
- Credo Reference CollectionA continually growing collection of electronic reference books -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, handbooks, atlases and directories.
- Oxford Reference Online Specialty encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries; emphasis on American Literature and Western Civilization.
- SAGE Reference E-Books Growing collection of topic and subject encyclopedias online. Note: not all titles displayed in Browse results are subscribed by UIC.
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