Online References

• Research It!
  One-stop reference page

Words

• Roget's Thesaurus
  Probably better to rely on a good printed edition rather than this mediocre work.

  Dictionaries

  • OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
  • Yahoo! - Reference: Dictionaries
  • Web of Online Dictionaries
  • Webster's Dictionary from Merriam-Webster
  • Webster's Dictionary, 1913 Edition, Revised and Unabridged
    from the ARTFL Project
  • Webster's Hypertext Interface
    Every word within a definition (except a, an, of, etc.) has a link to its own definition.
  • Acronym Lookup
  • Bill Casselman's Latin Dictionary
    A brief but useful dictionary
  • Latin (And A Few Greek) Phrases Defined
  • Quotes from Roman Poets And Other Famous Authors
  • Other Languages
    German, Greek, Latin, Spanish-- from Dictionary.com
  • Latin-English Dictionary

Encyclopediae

• Free Internet Encyclopedia
  A work in progress
• Britannica Online
  Need subscribe for full access, but provides FREE one-week (30-day?) trial membership
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  Not really an encyclopedia in the classic sense, it uses Smithsonian exhibitions to illuminate different facets of its topics
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
  An authoritative word on an often misunderstood creed

Misc.

• The Online Books Page
  Find the full electronic texts of thousands of books. Includes links to other e-text repositories, including Project Bartleby and the Internet Public Library.
• More Online books
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  Archived mostly for historical reasons-- not very up-to-date.
• The Elements of Style
  For improving your writing style.
• Lexis-Nexis link for Columbia University
  An interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.

Computers

• Computer Jargon
• Online Dictionary of Computing
• Online Dictionary of Computing

Science

• Online Scientific Reference Data
• Periodic Table of the Elements

Reference Desks and Other Meta-Indices

• My Virtual Reference Desk
  Dictionaries and Language Resources
  Encyclopedic in breadth
• Purdue Virtual Reference Desk