Encyclopedias
Access Science (UMD only)
Online version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (UMD only)
General encyclopedia with over
73,000 articles. Includes Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student
Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.
Oxford Reference Online (UMD Only)
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University
Press. Fully-indexed and cross-searchable.
Encyclopedia.com
Provides users with more than 57,000 updated
articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Articles are
enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures
and maps.
Grove Art Online (UMD Only)
Provides access to the entire text of The
Dictionary of Art (34 v.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, with
ongoing additions of new and updated articles, thumbnail art images and
line drawings, and extensive image links.
Grove Music Online (UMD Only)
Full text of the New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, second edition (2001), the New Grove Dictionary of
Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2002).
Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are
date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
Wikipedia
Web-based, self-referential, multi-language,
free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers. Contains
approximately 1.6 million articles.
