Online Encyclopedias
- Britannica Online
- http://www.eb.com/
- Online version of the current edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica. A
subscription (relatively expensive) is required for
use, although a free trial
is available. Note: The IPL Ready
Reference Collection does not usually list fee-for-service
resources. The Britannica is being listed because we have
received many requests from our users for access to it.
- Author: Britannica Advanced Publishing, Inc.
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias;
Britannica
- Encyberpedia
- http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm
- An annotated listing of subject-oriented encyclopedias available on the Web.
- Author: Monte Cristo Information Services (Count@montecristo.com)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; Internet
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
- "The Smithsonian Institution receives a great many public inquiries covering a wide range of topics. Therefore, the following responses have been compiled to answer frequently asked questions or to provide guidance in finding the requested information. New information will be added continually." Topics covered: Armed Forces History, Anthropology, Mineral Sciences, Musical History, Physical Sciences, Services, Textiles Conservation, Trasportation History, and Vertebrate Zoology.
- Author: Smithsonian Institution (webmaster@si.edu)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; FAQ
- FAQ Finder
- http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/
- Comprehensive guide to over 1800 FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions lists) available on the Internet, arranged by category.
- Author: Philip Kallerman & Ras Jarborg (v93_kat@ce.kth.se; rasmus.jarborg@mailbox.swipnet.se)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; FAQ
- FAQ Library
- http://www.faqlib.com/
- Guide to FAQ lists, browsable by topic. "This site does NOT list all usenet FAQs - only those which are maintained by their authors in HTML."
- Author: (wwwadmin@faqlib.com)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; FAQ
- FAQs for Newsgroups
- http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
- Current FAQs for USENET groups available at Oxford University. You can browse by category or by newsgroup, or search the full text of the FAQ archive. Powerful but slow.
- Author: Libraries Automation Service, Oxford University
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; FAQ; Usenet
- Free Internet Encyclopedia
- http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html
- Internet accessible information on a variety of topics arranged in an encyclopediac manner.
- Author: Clif Davis and Margaret Adamson Fincannon (clifton@cs.uh.edu; mfincann@hic.net)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; Internet
- Global Encyclopedia
- http://204.32.221.16/
- An in-progress traditional encyclopedia with entries written by various people around the Internet. Length and quality of the entries varies widely. Searchable, but given the incomplete nature of this resource you are probably better off browsing through the list of topics.
- Author: Matthew Jensen (jensen@halcyon.com)
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias;
- The WWW news.answers archive
- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-msc/descr.html
- "The Usenet newsgroup news.answers is a repository for periodic informational postings (also called Frequently Asked Questions postings, or FAQs) from other newsgroups." This archive is updated automatically. You can browse by archive name or by newsgroup, or search the full text of the FAQ archive by keyword.
- Author: Jaap Romers and Henk Penning
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; FAQ; Usenet
- Webliography: A Guide to Internet Resources
- http://www.lib.lsu.edu/weblio.html
- From LSU Virtual Library, a well annotated hierarchical guide to resources available on the Internet, covering a broad range of topics from government to science to humanities.
- Author: Louisianna State University Library
- Keywords: Reference; Encyclopedias; Internet; Government; Science; Humanities