| Dictionaries & encyclopedias for John Jay students, faculty & staff |
| The Library subscribes to specialized encyclopedias & dictionaries published by Sage, Oxford University Press, Gale, and other publishers. All are accessible from home for students, faculty and staff with current John Jay email addresses. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica Online |
| John Jay students only. The online version of the famous encyclopedia. |
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| Merriam-Webster Online |
| Dictionary and thesaurus from Merriam-Webster. |
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| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus |
| Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references. |
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| Visual Thesaurus |
| Free, online edition of the Visual Theasurus from Plumb Design, turns looking for words into a 3-D experience. |
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| Wikipedia |
| An online encyclopedia created and edited by the Internet user community; now contains over 540,000 articles. |
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| yourDictionary.com |
| A language-related portal with more than 1800 dictionaries in more than 250 languages. Originally called A Web of Online Dictionaries, it was founded by Prof.Robert Beard of Bucknell University in 1995. |
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