 Library Resources
General encyclopedias are at 030 in the Reference collection; Chronologies of world history are at 902.To find other types of material, do a catalogue keyword search. For example:
- dictionary "information technology"
- almanac australia
- chronology history asia
Catalogue links
The Australian Encyclopaedia
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Whitaker's Almanac
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Chronicle of Australia
Collins Dictionary of Dates
Web Resources
Britannica
Limited free content available without subscription.
Columbia Encyclopedia
Sixth edition, containing nearly 51,000 entries with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
Encyclopedia.com
Search or browse across a range of reference works, including the Britannica Concise, Columbia, and World encyclopaedias.
Wikipedia
A large collaborative encyclopedia project, to which anyone can contribute. The English version currently has nearly two million articles.
Citizendium
An encyclopedia project with an emphasis on credibility and quality.
The World Factbook
Information about countries, including geograpy, people, economy and government.
Information Please Almanac
Search or browse by different categories such as world, sports, health and science and business.
Wikipedia Timelines
List of timelines divided by topic and country. There is also a general historical timeline that has entries for each millennium, century, decade and year.
Google Directory: Timelines
A list of web links arranged by region and topic.
Webchron: The Web Chronology Project
Consists of a series of hyperlinked chronologies that present alternatives to conventional historical periodisations.
Today in History
Searchable archive of events and photos from the Library of Congress. Mainly US content.
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