Quick Reference: Encyclopedias
Britannica Online
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Includes more than 72,000 encyclopedia articles with photographs, drawings, full motion video and audio clips, and more than 130,000 reviewed Web sites.
Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition) contains nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/
Includes over 16,000 articles and excellent country maps.
Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
17,000+ articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition with links to other sources.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
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Covering topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment.
Encyclopedia of Buddhism
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This encyclopedia describes the Buddhist world view, basic teachings and practices of Buddhism, as well as its different schools and sects.
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society
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This 3-volume set presents the social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
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Features multidisciplinary coverage of such topics as comfort food, ethnicity and food, medieval banquets, and nutrient composition, and food and its place in human culture and society,
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
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This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
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A survey of modern Asia, defined as extending from Japan in the east to Turkey in the west, and from Kazakhstan in the north to Indonesia in the south, covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.
Encyclopedia of Religion
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Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/start.htm
Explore items from art to zoology from the Smithsonian collections.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Includes extensive encyclopedias of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and scientific biography. Entries include definitions, diagrams, formulas, cross-references, and related resources.
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
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Covering topics in nursing and allied health, including body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Grove Dictionary of Art
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Covers all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from
prehistory to the 1990s.
Grove Music Online
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Comprehensive scholarly encyclopedia of music in the English language. Coverage of music of all times and places.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Covers topics in social science research and practice.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed.
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Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
The North Carolina Encyclopedia
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm
This encyclopedia is designed to give you an overview of the people and resources of North Carolina.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/
A large collection of signed, refereed articles that are frequently updated and revised by a group of expert contributors.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics, covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
"Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by contributors from all around the world."
Content editor: John Boyd, boydjd@appstate.edu, Electronic Resources Librarian