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Encyclopedias Index

• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica - The 1911 Classic Encyclopedia project works to bring to you the renowned 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia - Clear, concise information on disease, injury, nutrition, medical tests, first aid, and more.
• AllRefer.com: Reference - Provides articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Literature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philosophy & Religion, Places, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Social Science, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more. Includes North America gazetteer and other reference works.
• Answers - Online dictionary, encyclopedia and more.
• Bartleby - Publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction.
• Bushido Martial Arts Online
• Cambridge History English & American Literature
• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Classical Dictionary
• Computer Desktop Encyclopedia
• Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE) - Features easy-to-read articles by over 150 top economists, including Nobel Prize winners, over 80 biographies of famous economists, and many tables and charts illustrating economics in action.
• Congresspedia - Citizen's encyclopedia on Congress. Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a wiki-based website documenting the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.
• Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History - Designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles in the field. Articles for the Online Encyclopedia are written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited.
• Encyclopedia - Puts millions of articles from some of the world's most authoritative and highly respected publications at your fingertips. Encyclopedia has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 Edition) - The 1911 Classic Encyclopedia project works to bring to you the renowned 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. See Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 Edition) - Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Search
• Encyclopedia Mythica - Mythology, folklore, legend.
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Encyclopedia of British History 1700-1950
• Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) - An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The EoE is a free, expert-reviewed collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The content is presented in a style intended to be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) - An online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Encyclopedia of the Celts
• Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project - First published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia include 21 volumes of text with more than 70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to zodiac. The remaining 11 volumes contain beautifully engraved plates illustrating many of the articles. The Encyclopedie was the major achievement of the French Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's words, was to "change the common way of thinking" through the expansion of knowledge and the development of critical modes of thought.
• Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) - An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The EoE is a free, expert-reviewed collection of content contributed  by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
• Encylcopedia of Life (EOL) - Global access to knowledge about life on Earth. EOL brings together trusted information from resources across the world such as museums, learned societies, expert scientists, and others into one massive database and a single, easy-to-use online portal.
• Encyclopedia of the First World War
• Encyclopedia of the Orient - North Africa and the Middle East.
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian - FAQ about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Science - - Extensive on-line encyclopedias of math and science: Encyclopedia of Science, Dictionary of Science, Science Encyclopedia, Science Dictionary, Eric Weisstein's World of Science, ScienceWorld.
• Free Internet Encyclopedia - Information available on the Internet.
• HealthCentral
• Herbal Encyclopedia
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Provides open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, which consists of editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present the IEP is visited by over 500,000 persons per month.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Science - An on-line A-to-Z of science maintained by astronomer/author David Darling and is part of The Worlds of David Darling website.
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• Jewish Virtual Library
• Legal Encyclopedia (Nolo)
• Linktionary - Search the Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunicatons.
• Literary Encyclopedia
• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
• NationMaster - A website that allows users to generate graphs based on numerical data extracted from the CIA World Factbook.
• New World Encyclopedia - A wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications.
• Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
• Online Encyclopedia - Search over 40,000 articles from four encyclopedias, including the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence - A regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century.
• PCA Food & Beverage Encyclopedia
• PRIME Mathematics Encyclopedia
• Probert Encyclopaedia - Topical enclopedia.
• Rudiments of Wisdom Cartoon Encyclopaedia
• Scholarpedia - A peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written and maintained by scholarly experts from around the world. Scholarpedia is inspired by Wikipedia and aims to complement it by providing in-depth scholarly treatments of academic topics.
• Smithsonian Encyclopedia - Online resources A-Z.
• SourceWatch - Collaborative resource for citizens and journalists looking for documented information about the corporations, industries, and people trying to influence public policy and public opinion.
• Spartacus Educational - A free online encyclopedia offering essays and other educational material on a wide variety of historical subjects. It is intended for use by history teachers and students.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Toxipedia - A toxicology encyclopedia offering articles and resources about toxic chemicals (such as pesticides and endocrine disruptors), health conditions, ethical considerations, the history of toxicology, laws and regulation, and more.
• Wex - Public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia.
• Whatis.com
• Wikipedia
• Wisdom Supreme - A dictionary in social sciences with entries in economics, law, philosophy, political science, sociology, and other disciplines.
• World Book
• World Factbook - U.S. government CIA profiles of countries and territories around the world.
• World Statesmen - An encyclopedia of nations, colonies, international and religious organizations, and other polities.
• World of Mathematics (Eric Weisstein)

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