Encyclopedias

Licensed for Acadia users onlyARTFL

Canadian Encyclopedia Online
The updated, online version of the authoritative Canadian reference work originally published by Hurtig Publishers in 1985.

Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia Mythica
An encyclopaedia on mythology, folklore and magic, with 4300+ definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

Licensed for Acadia users onlyGale Virtual Reference Library

Licensed for Acadia users onlyOxford Reference Online PREMIUM

Licensed for Acadia users onlyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Quotations & Concordances

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901)

The Quotations Page
A large collection of quotations, as well as links to many other quotations sites.

Acronyms

Acronyms Finder

jake
The Simon Fraser University development site for the Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment. To use jake for searching journal abbreviations for full titles, enter the abbreviation in the Search Title box and leave Truncate on.

Abbreviations.com
Search Acronums & Abbreviations by

PubMed Journals Database
Provided as a service with the PubMed database, the Journals Database allows users to search in various ways: by acronym, title of journal, International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), and National Library of Medicine (NLM) ID.

Almanacs

CIA World Factbook

Holidays & Anniversaries - Canada

Information Please
Search the Information Please Almanacs, along with The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition and Random House Webster's College Dictionary, 1997