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Encyclopedia.com

As the Internet's premier collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia.

At Encyclopedia.com, you get free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. Encyclopedia.com also provides innovative tools that allow you to rate and sort the reference content you find to be the most useful.

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HighBeam Research

Encyclopedia.com is owned and operated by HighBeam Research. Named the "Best Online Reference Service" by the CODiE Awards, HighBeam is an online library of more than 80 million articles from newspapers like The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, magazines like The Economist and Newsweek, and online dictionaries like Webster's New World Dictionary and The Oxford American College Dictionary.

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Two of the best sites for online research

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