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Reference Desk

Encylopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
The online version of the standard in printed encyclopedias.

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/
An online dictionary and search engine for computer and internet technology definitions.

Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Offers more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.

MSN Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/
Resources, guides, and information from MSN.

Library of Congress Online Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/
A searchable database of the collection of records in the Library of Congress.

Highbeam Research
http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp?
Formerly eLibrary, Highbeam offers a searchable archive of more than 28 million documents from 2,600 sources.

Infoplease
http://www.infoplease.com/
Answers to factual questions via an almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia.

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Medical information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/
An Internet directory of drugs, brand names, descriptions, and reported interactions.

The Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual_home2/home.jsp
The online verson of the Merck Manual Home Edition.