General Reference
Use these resources for general definitions, synonyms, encyclopedia articles, etc.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Bilingual dictionaries are available as well as English, including: French, Spanish, German, Irish, Italian, and Welsh
Britannica Online Academic
Britannica Online Academic provides electronic access to the full-text of all the articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica. Also included are more than 12,000 illustrations, maps, flags and pictures. Special features include tens of thousands of related Web links chosen by Britannica's editors, continuous updating, advanced search features such as Boolean logic and a link to Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus. Off campus users should log in.
Encarta Reference
Encarta Reference provides access to Encarta Encyclopedia, Encarta Online Deluxe, Encarta Atlas and Encarta World English Dictionary.
Bartleby.com
Bartleby online source features more than twenty reference works including Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd edition, 1995; American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000 and Encyclopedia of World History, 6th edition, 2001