Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Online Databases - Resources Requiring Login (Library card and password)

Oxford English Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary includes the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. 

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - Organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar informacion rapida y facilmente. Pulse en la primera letra del titulo del articulo para ver el articulo.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia - Encyclopedia entries about BC. Includes include links to in-depth research and homework help for assignments about BC.

Encyclopédie Universalis - Encyclopédie en ligne, mise à jour régulièrement, avec plus the 34,400 articles signés par 7,200 auteurs prestigieux et plus the 30,000 médias.

Gale Canada In Context - Created especially for researchers and educators studying Canada, its people and its history, Canada in Context is a media-rich database with audio, video, interactive maps, image maps, and global news feeds as well as biographies and original essays.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library contains the following eBooks: Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students,Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology,Environmental Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, The Encyclopedia of Surgery, New Catholic Encyclopedia, Terrorism Reference Library, and VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

KnowBC.com - The leading source of British Columbia information, KnowBC.com contains The Encyclopedia of British Columbia, The Enyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names, Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia, and Far West: The Story of British Columbia, as well as other e-books about British Columbia's social, political, and natural history.

L'Encyclopédie Découverte -  Offre des douzaines d'activités pratiques qui aideront  les jeunes élèves à s'intéresser à la recherche.

World Book Online Reference Centre - Includes primary and secondary sources, wide-ranging content, e-books, multimedia and customizable research tools. Designed to meet the needs and skills of older students. Shows most-viewed articles and primary sources.

World Book Kids - Kid-friendly version of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus special reports, state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, related articles from major newspapers and magazines and "Back in Time" chronicle of events.

World Book Student - An A-Z of everything, plus special reports, state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, related articles from major newspapers and magazines and "Back in Time" chronicle of events.

Subject Guides - Open Resources (no login required)

The Canadian Encyclopedia - The complete text of the original multi-volume set with additional multimedia. Continuously updated. [How to use]

L'Encyclopédie canadienne - L’entière version imprimée ainsi que tous les documents connexes. Continuellement mise à jour. 

The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - Describes the full breadth and depth of Canada's musical culture, including the historical and current aspects of popular, folk, religious, concert and other forms of music.

Visual Dictionary Online - Use a visual dictionary when you know what something looks like but not what it's called, or when you know the word but can't picture the object.