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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.
Other Web sites that allow anyone to rewrite reference entries can be fun. But when you
need credible information from reliable sources you can
cite, Encyclopedia.com (www.encyclopedia.com)
is the place to go.
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.
HighBeam also gives you access to thesauruses, maps, photographs,
trade journals, TV and radio transcripts, press releases, and more.
All of this is available at a single research Web site!
New articles are added to HighBeam daily. Plus, HighBeam features an article archive of newspaper,
journal, and magazine back issues dating back more than 20 years!
Two of the best sites for online research