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Reference Databases

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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create an accurate and comprehensive free-content encyclopedia.
All content is created and edited by participants.

Dictionaries
- Chambers 21st Century Dictionary
- The Macquarie Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary via Britannica Online
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- Oxford Reference Online
  Over 100 dictionaries, including specialist subject dictionaries, plus other reference books.
- Credo Reference
  Includes a wide range of specialist subject dictionaries plus other reference books.
Thesauri
- Merriam-Webster Colegiate Thesaurus via Britannica Online
- Roget's II: the new thesaurus 3rd edition
- Lexical FreeNet
English Style & Usage
- Elements of Style
  The classic work by William Strunk on English language usage.
- American Heritage Book of English Usage
  Grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms.

Oxford Reference Online
Includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The 10th edition, 1919.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
1950-1988.

Australian Dictionary of Biography
Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
s9.Com Biographical Dictionary
Includes the biographies of over 33 000 notable men and women.
World Who's Who
Biographical information on international heads of state, religious and political leaders,
and eminent people from business, finance, technology,and the arts.