A Selected List of Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Check out the print resources in the Penturn Library by searching our OPAC. Then, consult our online databases. For additional information, try the links below. *New links are regularly added to this site, so check back often. The teaching and learning resources listed below have been selected for staff and student use.

Cherchez les ressources sur papier à la bibliothèque Penturn en utilisant notre catalogue "OPAC." Aussi, consultez les bases de données. Pour l'information supplémentaire essayez les liens qui se trouvent ci-dessous. On ajoute régulièrement de nouveaux liens; alors, regardez ce site de temps en temps. Les ressources d'enseignment et d'apprentisage ont été choisies pour les professeurs et les étudiants.

DICTIONARIES

• Multilingual Dictionaries An enormous collection of multilingual dictionaries covering most global languages.

• One Look Dictionary This site is a search engine for words and phrases: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. Here are definitions, translations, word patterns etc. 

• Your Dictionary

GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Canadian Encyclopedia/L'encyclopedie Canadienne "The full text of The Canadian Encyclopedia and its related resources has been made available online by the Historica Foundation as a public service since 1999. The Canadian Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive, objective and accurate source of information on Canada." Includes also, The Canadian Encyclopedia of Music and Maclean's Magazine. / Cette version en ligne de l'Encyclopédie canadienne contient plus de 30.000 entrées et est très utile pour découvrir et comprendre le Canada et sa culture. On y trouve également une Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada et une chronologie de l'histoire canadienne. Quelques cartes interactives, graphiques et jeux éducatifs complètent le site.

• Columbia Encyclopedia Containing nearly 51,000 entries (six and a half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date general encyclopedias.

• Encyclopédie de l'Agora (Quebec) Une encyclopédie canadienne très typée et très originale.

• Encyclopedia Britannica The largest and longest established scholarly general encyclopedias in the English language. Articles are written and signed by subject experts. Authoritative, reliable and comprehensive, this encyclopedia should be the first stop for the researcher.

• The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert A collaborative Translation Project - "This site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English-language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the 18th century." Articles are browsable (by translated title, original title, or subject) and searchable. Also provides original French articles. From the University of Michigan Library and the Digital Library Extension Service (DLXS).

• Encyclopédie Multimédia Hachette L'Encyclopédie Hachette Multimédia : une encyclopédie, un dictionnaire de la langue française et un atlas mondial.

• Encyclopedie Universalis le portail de la connaissance.

FOR SPECIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS Please see SUBJECT PAGES