USM's Encyclopedias

Featured Encyclopedias

Britannica.com - access to the full contents of the encyclopedia, as well as news and links.
Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - complete contents of the year 2000 publication of the largest one-volume general encyclopedia available. Full-text searchable.
Topical an Large Encyclopedias

Popular Encyclopedias

Bushido Online - encyclopedia exploring the history and philosophy of Bushido. Includes its relation to Kung Fu, Karate, and Kobudo.
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - complete contents of the year 2000 publication of the largest one-volume general encyclopedia available. Full-text searchable.
Encarta Online
Encyclopedia of the Orient - with photos and sound; specializes in North Africa and the Middle East.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - information about a variety of topics, from Smithsonian Institution sources.
Encyclopedia.com - provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.
EncycloZine - hybrid portal/encyclopedia.
Everything2 - aims to catalog all human knowledge and show the interconnections between all the people, places, things, and ideas.
Funk & Wagnalls.com - multimedia encyclopedia, enriched with animation, sounds, music, flags, maps and more. Updated monthly.
Household Cyclopedia, The - collection of "10,000 receipts of use in all the arts of domestic and social life." Originally published 1881.
Hutchinson Encyclopedia - multimedia reference resource including articles, images, audio, video, atlas, quiz, quotations, dictionary, tables, and GCSE worksheets.
Internet Encyclopedia - Beta Test of Encyclopedia of Information Available on the Internet
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jones Digital Century Update - archive of updated articles that will be added to future editions of the Jones Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM reference work.
Musical Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia - search for the instrument of your choice or browse through the collection by the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme or by geographical origin.
Nupedia - online effort in which the results are freely distributable under an open content license.
Platonic Realms - math quotes, mini-texts and definitions.
Spartacus Encyclopedias - including British history 1700-1950, and two separate works for World War I.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - contains a quarterly updated, refereed resource for philosophers.