Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 

General

• New Oxford American Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionary - A Search Engine for Words and Phrases
• Oxford American Dictionary of Current English
• Oxford Dictionary of English
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - info
• Webster’s Dictionary Online

Specialized

• Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations

• Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Stedman's Medical Dictionary
• TechTerms Dictionary - Computer and Technology Defined and Explained
• Visual English Dictionary

General

• Encyclopedia.com
• InfoPlease
• World Encyclopedia

Arts

• ArtCyclopedia - The Guide to Great Art on the Internet
• Performing Arts Encyclopedia - from the Library of Congress

Engineering and Science

• Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology
• Knovel - Encyclopedias from various scientific disciplines
• Mark Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
• Medical Encyclopedia - from MedLinePlus
• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

History

• Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2^nd ed.,  22v,  2007
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
• Encyclopedia of American Immigration , 4v,  2001
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , 3v,  2003
• Encyclopedia of India , 4v,  2006
• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America , 3v,  2004
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia , 6v,  2003
• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism , 3v,  2008
• Encyclopedia of Russian History , 4v,  2004
• Encyclopedia of the Great Depression , 2v,  2004
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa , 2^nd ed.,  4v,  2004
• Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 , 3v,  2007
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained , 3v,  2003
• Smithsonian Encyclopedia

Literature

• Encyclopedia Mythica - Mythology
• The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993

Religion

• Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2^nd ed.,  22v,  2007
• Encyclopedia of Religion , 2^nd ed.,  15v,  2005
• Encyclopedia of Science and Religion , 2v,  2003
• New Catholic Encyclopedia - 2nd edition, 15 vol. 2003

Social Science

• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism , 3v,  2008
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 2^nd ed.,  9v,  2008
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 17v,  1968

• Chicago Manual of Style - info
• Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
• Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage

Georgiana McReynolds
Reference and Information Services Coordinator, Humanities Library
gmac@mit.edu

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