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Search the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online alphabetically or by subject. Also included are Year In Review articles since 1993, historical timeline searches, a dictionary and thesaurus, a world atlas, links to journal and magazine articles, and video clips.

Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.

Updated edition of this work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Sources may be searched individually or together.

The Grolier sources included in this online collection are:  Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.

World Book Online is your online route to reliable, authoritative, easy-to-understand information and an array of supplementary search tools and information sources.  World Book Online can fulfill many research needs.  You may need the answer to a particular question.  Or you may want general information to help with a school assignment.  And, of course, many people simply like to explore World Book, letting one topic lead them to another.  Whatever your reason for using World Book, you will find a wealth of information along with tools that make it easy to find what you need.  State-of-the-art search tools give you instant access to World Book's information.  You can search or browse the encyclopedia by general category, by particular phrases or words, by places, or by type of content, such as pictures, sounds, or animations. 

Links to related information help you to broaden your reading and research.  World Book Online provides many cross-references, or links, within the text of articles and at the end of articles.  These cross-references link you to maps, charts, audio and visual clips, animations, Bubble Views (360-degree virtual tours), Web sites, magazine and newspaper articles, or other World Book articles and sections of articles related to the article topic.

A simple screen design makes World Book Online easy to use, even for people with little or no computer experience.

A multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Links at the bottom of entries can often guide you to additional information. See the entry for the Newton Free Library here. For suggestions on Researching with Wikipedia, click here.

By combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, infoplease.com places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.  The staff of editors and researchers continuously updates and refines this enormous body of information - as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends - to bring you the most reliable and authoritative information.  Whatever you are interested in, infoplease.com has the information you need.