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General Reference Works
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Oxford Reference Online, Premium Edition (Access
restricted to Harvard -- see Internal
information)
The collection brings together 100 well-known Oxford dictionaries
and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia and specialized foreign-language
dictionaries, into a single cross-searchable Web database. This
set of reference works includes comprehensive coverage across the
spectrum of subjects, everything from General Reference, Language
and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and
Social Sciences to Business and Professional. (contents
list - PDF) |
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Columbia
Gazetteer
This database of geographical names, including their descriptions
and characteristics, covers more than 165,000 places in the world.
It offers access through 3 types of searches (place name, type of
place, and keyword). |
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Encyclopedia
Britannica
Britannica Online consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection
of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article
database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica,
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
(Tenth Edition), and the
Britannica Book of the Year. |
Language Resources
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Oxford
English Dictionary, 3rd Edition
The online Oxford English Dictionary contains the complete A to
Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series,
and also draft material produced in the progress towards the Third
Edition. The revised and new entries will be added to the online
Dictionary every quarter, and these will eventually cumulate to
form the complete new edition. You may search the full text, definitions,
etymologies, and quotations. |
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Webster's
Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
America's premier lexicographical work; the 1993 edition is published
here in electronic form. A dictionary of the English language containing
450,000 vocabulary entries giving etymologies, definitions of the
term as used since 1755, and over 200,000 illustrative quotations,
mostly drawn from contemporary sources. Searches by headword, keyword,
etymology, and author/quotation keyword are possible. |
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Language
Name Index
Listing of 6,800 languages with links for 41,000 alternate names
and dialects (From Ethnologue.com) |
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ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts
Links to the tables approved by the Library of Congress and the
American Library Association |
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YourDictionary.com
If you can get past all the advertising, there is a wide selection of foreign language dictionaries.
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Translation
Tool (Babel Fish)
Limited number of languages, CJK included; occasionally humorous
results, but can be useful for getting the gist of an unfamiliar
language. |
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