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This guide is designed to provide access to reference sources that are available online. Reference sources include things such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.

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Infoplease Almanac
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find useful facts and statistical information
Infoplease Dictionary
Infoplease Encyclopedia
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provides access to articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition)
Infoplease Thesaurus
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find synonyms for words

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

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These can be combined with your topic, i.e. biology encyclopedia, Spanish dictionary, world almanac, etc.
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