Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Britannica  http://www.britannica.com/

Full text and free access to over 125,000 sites and 70 journals, the complete Encyclopedia Britannica is available, along with daily news, markets, sports and weather. The site has an advanced search function that allows searches by words or phrases.

 

One-Look Dictionaries http://www.onelook.com

No-frills dictionary has indexed 4,861,428 words from 833 dictionaries. Definitions are available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

 

Investor Words http://www.investorwords.com/

Large and user-friendly collection of finance and investment terms from InvestorGuide.com.

Ready Reference

Bartleby's Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Over 11,000 quotations searchable by key word; based on the original Bartlett's Quotations.

 

Business English http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html

Glossaries, acronyms, vocabulary, explanations definitions and other fundamentals of various industries such as accounting, advertising, banking, economics, management, law, real estate, and more - 24 areas in total.

 

How Many? Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

A dictionary of units of measurement. All systems of weights and measures, both metric and non-metric, are included. Both the International System of Units and the English Customary Units systems are indexed.

 

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Multi-media explanations to hundreds of subjects including technology, biology, automotive engineering, travel, time, money and more. Updated daily, searchable by keyword and able to browse by topic.

Maps and Atlases

My Telus Maps http://www.mytelus.com/maps/display.do

 

Yahoo Maps http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/

 

Map Quest http://www.mapquest.com/

 

Expedia Maps http://www.expedia.ca/pub/agent.dll?qscr=over&rfrr=-1072&lnkcid=tbnhp.e.118&&zz=1161276310312&

 

ArcData Online http://www.esri.com/data/online/index.html

Contains a wide assortment of geographic information that users can access to create map images and download data. U.S., international and global data is included.

 

World Fact Book http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

CIA facts and reference maps for 268 countries. Information available for each country includes geography, people, government, economics, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues.

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