Directory of Encyclopedias Resources

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This category is aimed at Internet users under the age of 18. All sites submitted should be geared toward children and/or teenagers and should provide free online encyclopedias.

Resources in This Category

• Bartleby.com Reference

  http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
  Reference site allows you to search over the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of World History, fact books, thesauri, quotes, and more.

• Children's Encyclopedia of Women

  http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/womenenc.htm
  Collection of articles about famous women written by third and fourth grade students.

• Encyclopaedia Britannica

  http://www.britannica.com/
  Provides complete text of Encyclopaedia Britannica with search capabilities, related links, and multimedia enhancements. Free trial available.

• Encyclopedia Smithsonian

  http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia
  Links to online Smithsonian resources and answers to frequently asked questions from A to Z.

• Encyclopedia.com

  http://www.encyclopedia.com/
  Free resource offers more tens of thousands of articles from multiple sources.

• How Stuff Works

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/
  Articles explain how hundreds of things work, from elements of the human body to space-age technology.

• Open Site

  http://open-site.org/
  A volunteer-run open content encyclopedia, inspired by the Open Directory Project.

• Spartacus Educational

  http://spartacus-educational.com/
  British online encyclopedia focuses on historical topics. Articles are geared toward students.

• Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  Free volunteer-edited encyclopedia with over 2.1 million articles.

• Wikipedia Selection for schools

  http://schools-wikipedia.org/
  A free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum.

• wordIQ.com

  http://www.wordiq.com/encyclopedia.html
  An online encyclopedia with more than 400,000 pages of content.

• World Book Encyclopedia

  http://www.worldbook.com/
  Offers in-depth information on a variety of subjects and educational activities for children.

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