REFERENCE RESOURCES

 

Encyclopaedias

Dictionaries

Thesauri

Atlases & Maps

Factfinders

• Encyclopaedias

Encyclopedia.com	Britannica On Line	Columbia Encyclopaedia
MSN Encarta On Line	Virtual Encyclopedia	Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols	Perseus Classical Encyclopedia	Resource Central  - Links to specialist Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Astronautica	Encyclopaedia of the Orient	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Dictionaries

Dictionary.com	Merriam-Webster On Line	Cambridge Dictionaries On Line
Encarta World English Dictionary	HyperDictionary (The Exploding Dictionary)	Life Science Dictionary
Babelfish (AltaVista's translation service)	ForeignWord.com	Rhyming Dictionary
Dictionary of Slang (English)	Macquarie Dictionary -  Book of Slang	Australian Slang Words and Phrases

• Thesauri

Visual Thesaurus (Plumb Design)	Roget's Thesaurus	Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
CLAD Thesaurus

• Atlases & Maps

National Geographic Map Machine

The Harvard Geospatial Library 

Atlapedia	Encarta On Line Atlas of the World	United Nations Cartographic Section
World Atlas.com	Infoplease Atlas	Demis Map Server
Outline Maps	ReliefWeb Map Centre	Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Maporama	MapQuest	WhereIs Online Roadmaps Australia

• Factfinders

Bartleby's Fact Book	CIA World Fact Book 2001	CIA Chiefs of State
FactMonster Almanac	The Living Almanac of Disasters	Guinness World Records