Do you need information in English?
InfoPlease is a very complete American encyclopaedia fully charged with a dictionary containing more than 125000 entries, an atlas, a thesaurus, and some almanacs, as well as a series of tips and help articles on writing, improving spelling, punctuation and style. The articles on foreign loan words are not to be missed! This thorough site also contains articles on sports, art and entertainment, business, and history, as well as “infoplease tools” such as calculator, spelling checker, place finder, distance calculator, periodic table and conversion tool!
Do you need information in French?
L’Encyclopédie Hachette is a French reference tool containing a encyclopaedia with more than 42000 articles, a French language dictionary with more than 66000 definitions and a complete world atlas, with more features displayed on the paying version. Do you not know what verb form should you use in French? The conjugation sheets for more than 5000 verbs should solve all your queries.
The MSN Encarta Encyclopaedia is another interesting reference tool. The French version includes also a French Monolingual dictionary and a bilingual dictionary French-English-French available to paying members. On the other hand, the English version adds a free Thesaurus and a bilingual lexicon between English and German, Spanish, French or Italian.
Encyclopedia.com de Electric Library
Encyclopédie américaine. Ne sait pas faire la différence entre le gouvernement, l’État et la Nation…
L’Encyclopédie canadienne de la fondation HISTOR!CA
Encyclopédie en français et en anglais. Intéressante, malgré une navigation peu aisée et un contenu très centré sur le Canada.
