DICTIONARIES

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
  Features over 10,000 new words and phrases and word roots
• Credo Reference
  Available through CBU Library subscription, Credo Reference contains eight different dictionaries that you can search simultaneously. Includes The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (2003) and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary (2004).
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Search engine with more than 5 million words (including translations) indexed in over 900 online dictionaries.
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
  Available through CBU Library subscription, the Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language. Entries include over 2 million dated quotations from English language history, literature,and records - and facts concerning word forms, changes, and etymology.
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Edition
  Available through CBU Library subscription, Oxford Reference Online offers twenty English dictionaries and language references, including The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, and The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English.
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995
  Contains 35,000 synonyms and 250,00 hypertext cross references

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
  Contains 51,00 entries and 80,000 hypertext references
• Credo Reference
  Available through CBU Library subscription, Credo Reference contains six encyclopedias that you can search simultaneously. Includes The Columbia Encyclopedia (2004) and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia(2003).
• Britannica.com
  Features the Encyclopedia Britannica, website access, magazines and more
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Edition
  Available through CBU Library subscription, Oxford Reference Online contains encylopedic information on a variety of subjects. Includes titles such as The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, and The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World.