Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

• Answers.com

  Answers.com is your free "one-stop shop" with instant information on over 4 million topics. We deliver useful answers in a snap. Look up any word or phrase for the best definition or explanation on the Web.

• Britannica Concise

  Featuring 28,000 short articles.

• Creation and Evolution Encyclopedia

  Over 700 printed pages of material discussing the controversy between creation and evolution.

• Encarta Encyclopedia

  MSN Encarta Encyclopedia contains award-winning content to help you learn about almost anything. Some of the content is available free of charge. For access to MSN Encarta Premium content, become a subscriber of MSN Encarta Premium. The encyclopedia contains over 5,000 detailed articles and associated multimedia, such as illustrations and photos.

• Encyclopedia Mythica

  Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands.

• Explore a World of Symbols

  Symbols.com contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.

• How Stuff Works

  HowStuffWorks is the leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site has since grown to be an award-winning online resource for millions of people of all ages. From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered.

• Information Please

  On-Line dictionary, Internet encyclopedia, and almanac reference.

• Metropolitan Plant Encyclopedia

  The metropolitan plant encyclopedia consists of a series of comprehensive pages on the plants of the New York metropolitan region. For each family, genus, and species in the area there are one or more pages with photos, distribution maps, descriptions, ecological information, references and much more. Horticultural information will be added in the months ahead. At this time BBG scientists are concentrating on woody plants. The encyclopedia includes pages for all woody species in the area.

• Wikipedia

  A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software. (GNU Free Documentation License) and with over 1,000,000 articles. Note that because articles can be "vandalized," information on Wikipedia is not always accurate.

• World Book Encyclopedia

  Online version of the complete reference work along with dictionary, atlas, links, magazines, historical documents, audio, video, images, and 3D photographs. Requires free temporary registration with option to buy continued access for full articles.