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Reference sources provide short descriptive entries, overviews, definitions, numerical expressions, bibliographical references, and instructions about one or more subjects through multiple entry points.

• Acronym Finder

  
  An acronym and abbreviations dictionary. Find out what more than 4 million acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms stand for.

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

  
  This tenth edition (1919) contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.

• Concise Columbia Encyclopedia

  
  A free encyclopedia.

• E-Library

  
  Provides full-text from more than 2,500 magazines, newspapers, reference books, and television transcripts -- plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video files. (Full-text).

• Encyclopedia Britannica

  
  The online version of the standard encyclopedia, covering a wide range of topics. Also useful as a guide to the World Wide Web, providing links to rated sites. Provides some magazine articles as well. (Full-text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica.com

  
  Free Version

• Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

  
  Encyclopedia designed to meet the reseach needs of elementary, middle and high school students. (Full-text)

• General Reference Center Gold

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

• Handbook of Texas Online

  
  An encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

• Health & Wellness Resource Center

  
  Coverage of health information from medical journals, encyclopedias and pamphlets. (Full-text)

• Information Please

  
  A variety of reference sources in one place.

• InfoTrac OneFile

  
  One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. (Some full text).

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus

  
  Free dictionary and thesaurus.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

  
  Authoritative guide to careers.

• Statistical Abstract of the United States

  
  A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.