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Online Library

 

Many universities have an online library that anyone can use.  If you don’t find what you want with one, go to another.  Google search can do anything.  If you find a particularly useful one, please let us know so we can help more students.

The Free Dictionery- create your own personal homepage
The Free Dictionery

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

TheFreeDictionary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and “using or losing” existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.

A lot of free information. A good Encyclopaedia. Good choice of free articles

Wiley Online Library - collection of online resources
Wiley Online Library

http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

Wiley Online Library hosts the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 15,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Featuring a clean and simple interface, this online service delivers intuitive navigation, enhanced discoverability, expanded functionalities and a range of personalization and alerting options.

  • Easy-to-Use Design: Developed in consultation with users to deliver intuitive navigation and easy access to articles, chapters, references, and supplementary information.
  • Enhanced Tools to Discover Relevant Content: Comprehensive search engine optimization ensures easy discoverability of content, delivering relevant and immediate results to users
  • More Ways to Stay Up-to-Date: Content alerts and RSS feeds to keep you updated with the latest published research, including journal tables of contents, EarlyView and Accepted Articles, and search results.
  • Wiley Online Library Brochure: Available in 13 languages

Wikipedia - free encyclopaedia
Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/

The free encyclopaedia.

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model of openly editable content. The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quick”) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s articles provide links designed to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.

The fundamental principles by which Wikipedia operates are the five pillars. The Wikipedia community has developed many policies and guidelines to improve the encyclopedia; however, it is not a formal requirement to be familiar with them before contributing.

To read more about Wikipedia refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

Wikibooks - free text books and manuals
Wikibooks

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free text books and manuals

Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course or for self-learning.

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Wikidata - free knowledge base
Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

Free knowledge base

Wikidata is a free linked database that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others.
Wikidata also will provide support to many other sites and services beyond just Wikimedia projects! The content of Wikidata is available under a free license, exported using standard formats, and can be interlinked to other open datasets on the linked data web.

Wikisource - free library that anyone can improve
Wikisource

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free library that anyone can improve.

The Free Library – is a Wikimedia Foundation project to create a growing free content library of source texts, as well as translations of source texts in any language.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Cambridge Dictionaries Online 

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/

Our dictionaries are informed by the Cambridge English Corpus, billions of words of real English, and the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of exam scripts written by students taking Cambridge ESOL exams all over the world.

Merriam Webster Online
Merriam Webster Online

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Dictionary and Thesaurus

Word of the day. Games, word test with learning aids

Webster Dictionary
Webster Dictionary

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/

Medical and law dictionary. Spell checker