This guide is designed to provide access to reference sources that are available online. Reference sources include things such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.
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.
This site from the publishers of Merriam-Webster provides free access to basic reference sources such as a dictionary and a thesaurus. Other services may require a subscription fee in order to use.
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.
Off campus access information
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by 
Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English by 
