Dictionaries online

Online dictionary with limited search possibilities.
(Van Dale Lexicografie - NL - http://www.vandale.nl).

Online word list.
(Nederlandse Taalunie - NL - http://woordenlijst.org/).

Online dictionary based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (1999).
(Merriam-Webster, Incorporated - US - http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm)

Online dictionary from Microsoft (North American Edition).
(Microsoft - US - http://dictionary.msn.com/)

Online dictionaries.
(yourDictionary.com - US - http://www.yourdictionary.com/)

Includes Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
(Cambridge University Press - GB - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)

ODLIS is designed as a reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and the general reader and library user.
(Western Connecticut State University Libraries - US - http://www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html)

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Encyclopaedias

Offers online access to the complete encyclopaedia. No off campus access.
(Encyclopaedia Brittanica - US - http://search.eb.com)

Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link. Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which anybody with Internet access can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in some important ways. In particular, mature articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while other (often fledgling) articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopaedic content or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this in order to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation which has been recently added and not yet removed.
(http://wikimediafoundation.org - US - http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Britannica.com is a free but concise edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
(Britannica.com Inc.- US - http://www.britannica.com)

Encarta Concise Edition of the Encarta encyclopedia.
(Microsoft - US - http://encarta.msn.com/)

Online dictionary for computer and Internet technology.
(internet.com Corp. - US - http://www.webopedia.com/).

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Overviews

(Yahoo! Inc - US - http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/)

(Joint Information Systems Committee - GB - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/)

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