yourDictionary.com provides links to free online dictionaries, thesauri, and glossaries in English as well as more than 120 other languages. There is also a section containing many subject dictiona...
World's largest catalog of resources from libraries globally with 400 languages represented. The WorldCat.org version uses relevancy in discovery. Local Interlibrary Loan services are integrated.
World's largest catalog of resources from libraries globally with 400 languages represented. FirstSearch interface has advanced searching options. Local Interlibrary loan services are integrated.
WLHBA consists of image files of historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society, mainly between 1860-1940. It is searchable by headline, subject, n...
The Wisconsin Blue Book is a comprehensive almanac of Wisconsin State Government. It includes biographies of people in state government, information on the various agencies of the state, and a grea...
Previously known as Vocabolario 1612, this is an online version of the first edition of the prestigious Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, a normative dictionary of the Italian language bas...
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, or ulrichsweb.com (formerly Ulrich's Plus), provides detailed information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publication...
Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.
This is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version o...
Comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin compiled on the basis of all literary and non-literary Latin texts surviving from antiquity (until AD 600); Not a bilingual Latin-English dictionary.
This is the online version of the Swedish Academy's authoritative and historically oriented(covering 800 CE to the present) dictionary of the Swedish language, Ordbok over svenska språket. It allow...
Index to more than 150,000 short stories from 1915 to 1983. Sources include periodicals and collections of short stories, with extensive subject indexing.
Authoritative reference handbook of facts and analysis on governmental and political makeup for over 200 countries and territories throughout the world, intergovernmental organizations, and UN agencies.
Peer-reviewed articles and in-depth overviews of the major areas of research in African history. Entries include audio, visual, and video materials, with links to digitized archives and primary sources.
Cross-searchable collection of dictionaries, encyclopedia, and reference books across all subjects, including the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and bilingual dictionaries.
Subject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.
Online encyclopedia of topics related to women and gender studies; covers geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and biographies, pre-history to the 2000s.
Online encyclopedia explores the changing nature of science, medicine, and technology in the U.S.; key individuals, institutions, and organizations; concepts, practices, and processes behind changes.
Online encyclopedia covers the social experience of Americans throughout history, from population movements, work, racial divides, women’s suffrage, voting, leisure, consumption patterns, and more.
Online encyclopedia covers values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs in the U.S., whether expressed in everyday life or formal bodies of thought, from early days of settlement to the 21st century.
The Oxford DNB contains more than 50,000 illustrated biographies of people who were noteworthy or influential in shaping Britain's past. The biographies do not include any living subjects, but star...
Bilingual Dictionary and language reference service for English to selected foreign languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish), including grammar guides, writing tools, and cultural information.
Reference tool of authoritative research guides on Latin American Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
Frequently updated, authoritative research guides on topics in international law, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
Reference tool of authoritative research guides on African Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides access to more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes several reference works with print counterparts - Afri...
This free service contains more than 2.3 million words found in more than 490 online dictionaries. The list of dictionaries can be browsed by broad subject areas (including slang) or alphabetically...
Historical dictionary of the English language; includes present-day meanings, history of individual words, and usage through quotations from classic literature, film, scripts, and other sources.
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources that provides "one-stop shopping" for academically-oriented digitized materials. OAIster provides access to the resources in nearly 900 collections w...
NoveList is a source for assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes information on more than 150,000 titles, including authors, publication information, subjects, book...
Biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples.
Focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and looks forward, defining women in the contemporary world. Includes multimedia features. Especially strong on American aspects of...
A composite German-language dictionary, with a German-language help file, of Middle High German. It is based on the conversion to machine-readable form of the following scholarly printed sources: M...
An ongoing searchable location, concept, and dictionary file of close to 100 Middle High German texts with 682,000 textlines, 4.3 million words, 35,000 distinct words, and 16,000 distinct meanings....
The online Collegiate Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. It includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as t...
Online version of J.F. Niermeyer's concise dictionary of medieval Latin, with French, English and German translations for every entry of a Medieval Latin concept and searches on lemma and full text.
Peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. Includes both Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.
General interest database of journals, reference books, photos and videos. Topics covered include business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues.
Marquis Biographies Online (Who's Who) is a collection of over 1.4 million biographies that have appeared in 25 print titles since 1985, including, among others, "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who ...
A database of some 48,000 Old French words, namely the lemmata from the Tobler-Lommatzsch Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch. The latter is still in production, but by special arrangement this database in...
This exhaustive collection of nearly 800 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and word lists gives access to hundreds of thousands of words, terms and expressions. The range of subjects cover...
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/...