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JEFFSelects: Encyclopedias
Medical & Scientific Encyclopedias
- ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
(MEDLINEplus) - The National Library of Medicine provides
the popular Adam.com Health Illustrated Encyclopedia at its MEDLINEplus
site. The encyclopedia covers more than 4,000 topics, including diseases
and symptoms, treatments, surgery, tests and procedures, nutrition
and anatomy.
- EcoCyc:
Encyclopedia of E. coli Genes and Metabolism (EcoCyc)
A cooperative project of Pangea Systems Inc. and the Marine Biological
Laboratory, EcoCyc describes the genes and intermediary metabolism
of the bacterium E. coli.
General Encyclopedias
- Britannica
Concise (Yahoo)
A searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references
and images, with links to the American Heritage Dictionary, the World
Fact Book and more. The full version of the Britannica Encyclopedia
is available for a fee.
- Encyclopedia.Com
(Electric Library)
This site contains a searchable database of over 14,000 articles from
The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. Photographs and images
are available to subscribers for a fee.
- Information
Please (Infoplease)
The well-known Information Please Almanac is available, along with
the 57,000 articles from Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th edition, a dictionary
of 125,000 English words.
- Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Large open-content encyclopedia project. Anyone can edit, so be sure
to evaluate the reliability of individual articles against other sources
and by looking at the articles' history and discussion tabs.
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