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Credo Reference

Credo Reference

The academic alternative to Wikipedia! Pulls articles from a wide range of encyclopedias and dictionaries written by subject experts.

The academic alternative to Wikipedia! Provides access to nearly 500 encyclopedias and dictionaries. Search by concept map. Includes thousands of searchable images.

Birds of the World
Provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.

Birds of the World contains 10,721 species accounts from every bird species in the world and is an entirely new scientific publication that merges and enhances content, data, multimedia, figures, and illustrations from four different ornithological volumes: Birds of North America (BNA), Neotropical Birds, Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW Alive), and Bird Families of the World.
Wiley Online Library (formerly Blackwell Reference Online)

Books and articles in life, health, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.

Includes the complete texts of almost 300 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works from Wiley Blackwell Publishing in the Wiley Blackwell Reference Online collection. Also contains description-only citations of over 21,000 other online books, journals and articles.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
A general encyclopedia covering a large range of topics.

Oxford English Dictionary

Definitions, pronunciation, and history of English language words.

Current, online version of the famous dictionary.
Oxford Reference Online

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books covering many subjects.

Contains the complete texts of over 100 Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles.