• Britannica.com, provides the partial-text Encyclopaedia Britannica and full-text Meriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.  Users may simultaneously search encyclopedia articles, selected web sites, selected magazine articles from 70 magazines, and for related books for sale through Barnes&Noble.  News from WashingtonPost.com is also provided.
• Canadian Encyclopedia Online, a site presenting information about various aspects of Canadian life and culture
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, searchable full-text articles from Project Bartleby.
• Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, free abridged web version of Microsoft's CD-ROM Encarta Encyclopedia. Searchable only.
• Grolier Online, a searchable version of this encyclopedia.
• Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, from Ebsco; access limited to Howard College campus computers
• Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia; access limited to Howard College campus computers
• Information Please, searchable and browseable site consisting of the Information Please Almanac, a sports almanac, an entertainment almanac, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia. All resources can be searched separately or simultaneously, or searching can be of subjects or of the full-text.
• The New Book of Knowledge, from Grolier's, a general encyclopedia; access limited to Howard College campus computers
• For full-text articles from the entire World Book Encyclopedia, use FirstSearch (authorization and password required).
• xrefer, combined search engine of reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotation books and other works.

Animals

• Encyclopedia of Animals through Ebsco; contains articles on various animals and includes pictures; access limited to Howard College campus computers

Astronautics

• Encyclopedia Astronautica, a source that provides quick answers to ready-reference questions about astronautics (from Choice, Supplement 37)

• NatureServe - An Online Encyclopedia of Life, provides scientific and common names, conservation status, distribution maps, life histories, and more for over 50,000 species of plants and animals.

• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, collection of articles on the human brain, how the brain functions, and related topics. Free registration required.

Cultural

Financial

Gardening

Home Improvement

• Better Homes and Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia, information on plumbing, carpentry, masonry & concrete, wiring, and decks.

• Nolo.com - Legal Encyclopedia, articles containing legal information on several topics in plain English.

• Platonic Realms - Mathematics Encyclopedia, brief articles on mathematics and mathematicians.

• WebMD Medical Encyclopedia, includes articles on virtually all aspects of medicine and health care.

• Encyclopedia Mythica,

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, searchable collection of articles on philosophers, philosophies, and philosophic terms.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, incomplete encyclopedia of philosophy includes very comprehensive articles on some topics.

• Encyclopedia of the Celts, short articles concerning Celtic history and culture arranged alphabetically.
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient, covers articles concerning North African and Middle Eastern Nations.
• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, articles about Cleveland, Ohio
• Handbook of Texas Online, searchable and browseable this encyclopedia contains over 23,000 articles on Texas people, places, events, history, and other topics.  From a collaborative effort of the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
• Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia - British History 1700-1950, currently contains 2,600 articles on British history from the perspective of all levels of society.
• Utah History Encyclopedia, includes hundreds of articles on the history of Utah.

• The Catholic Encyclopedia, this online version of the 1917 work includes articles on the people, places, and things concerning Catholicism

Self-Reliance

• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information, 1881 encyclopedia filled with articles on practical how-to information. Useful for some tasks such as making soap or fermenting wine but some information, such as on medicine, is obviously dated.

Social Science

• The Borderlands Encyclopedia, from an office of the University of Texas at El Paso, this site provides information about the border area between the United States and Mexico (from Choice, Supplement 37).