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are available in Pius Library. Search the Saint Louis Universtiy Libraries Catalog by subject, Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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Canadian
Encyclopedia Online
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/
HISTOR!CA, a foundation focused on Canadian
history education, provides this encyclopedia in English and in French.
It is the result of 20 years work and contains over 10,000 signed
articles written by approximately 4,000 scientists, academics, and specialists.
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Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
The original 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia [Ref. BX 841
.C25] is being transcribed into electronic form by volunteers.
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Citizendium
http://www.citizendium.org/
Begun in November 2006, this Wiki aims at credibility and quality. Real
names are used and both credentialed experts and the general public may
begin or edit articles. Authors and editors are required to undergo a review
process before being approved to add or edit articles.
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Columbia
Encyclopedia, 6th ed
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Published in 2000, this up-to-date encyclopedia joins classic works on the
Bartleby site. Search the full text or browse through the over 50,000
entries.
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Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online: Academic Edition
http://search.eb.com
Electronic relation of the New Encyclopaedia Britannica [Ref. AE5
.E363 2005]. Includes the complete Encyclopædia Britannica,
as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Search
the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica by keyword(s), browse by alphabetical
order or by subject, peruse the Timelines, explore the World Atlas, compare
countries, browse the "Year in Review", or locate country information
and statistics. Check out current news from the New York Times and/or
the BBC.
Remote access available to current SLU students,
faculty, and staff.
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Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com
This encyclopedia, provided by HighBeam, contains articles
from
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, some other free online
encyclopedias, as well as free articles.
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Encyclopedia
Mythica: An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
This free encyclopedia about mythology, folklore and magic is being created
and maintained by Micha F. Lindemans in The Hague, Netherlands. He
gives his interests as history and mythology among others. A link
invites others to submit articles.
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Encyclopedia
of the Orient
http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
The encyclopedia contains original material on a wide variety of topics
covering these countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western
Sahara, and Yemen. It is written by Tore Kjeilen, Sidahmed Abubakr,
and D. Josiya Negahban. Information is available about each on this
Web site. In addition, contributions and corrections are accepted
from it users.
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
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How
Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Provides explanations with diagrams about how things work from airplanes
to bar codes. The creator is Marshall Brain, former teacher in the
Computer Science Department of North Carolina State University. Users
are invited to contribute articles if they have expertise in the area they
want to write about.
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Jewish
Encyclopedia.com
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
This online version of the original encyclopedia published 1901-1906 contains
all of the material in its original 12 volumes. Since it was originally
published over 100 years ago, additional sources need to be consulted for
more recent Jewish history such as the Holocaust and the creation of Israel.
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NOLOPEDIA
http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm
From Nolo.com, this encyclopedia-like work allows browsing of legal topics
A-Z, searching, or clicking on an entry in a table of contents including
Patents, Copyright,
& Trademark.
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Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org/
This site currently contains entries relating
to Computational Neuroscience, Dynamical
Systems, Computational Intelligence, and Astrophysics. Articles are
peer-reviewed.
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SYMBOLS.com
http://www.symbols.com/
This encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms contains over "2,500
Western
signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics."
Each symbol is accompanied by an article describing its history, use, and
meaning. The entries "range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth
by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti." Search
by graphic characteristics or browse alphabetically by word. This is the
electronic version of Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols--Western
Non-pictorial Ideograms by Carl G. Liungman. Pius owns the earlier
edition of this work: Dictionary of Symbols [Ref. BL603 .L5413
1991].
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TechEncyclopedia
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
Definitions and short articles some with illustrations for computer and
technology terms. If the term you typed is not there, you get a list
of alphabetically close articles.
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Wikipedia:
The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This encyclopedia currently has over 2,000,000 articles in English and
allows
users to add entries and edit entries added by others. Lesser numbers
of articles are available in many other languages.
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