Especially designed to suit the needs of ESL students. With an up-to-date word list and definitions adapted from The American Heritage Dictionary databases, abundant sample sentences and phrases, and an easy-to-use alphabetic pronunciation system all provide an excellent learning tool.

Links to online foreign language dictionaries

Provides authoritative definitions and traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period. (more info)

Containing more than 470,000 entries, this online edition of the classic dictionary includes etymology, examples of usage and more. (more info)

In-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. (more info)

Full text of CQ Researcher reports on major U.S. social, economic and political issues. (more info)

See arguments for and against current events questions designated by the Economist.

A database of issues covered by Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates and International Debates since 1998. (more info)

Great resource for browsing controversial topics of the day, with arguments that examine all sides of an issue.

ProCon.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. The site provides over 1,000 questions on controversial issues with over 7,500 pro, con, and not clearly pro or con statements. Entries include date and source information for all research cited, and over 4,800 biographies for the sources used on the sites.

Indexes and abstracts more than 8,300 journals; almost 4,700 of these titles are in full text. (more info)

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. (more info)

Full text of general interest periodicals and other materials. (more info)

Selected full text for 300 U.S. and international newspapers. (more info)

Full text articles from scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. (more info)

Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. (more info)

Online edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Includes a dictionary and thesaurus. (more info)

Streaming video of a collection of films from the Films Media Group. (more info)

Academic Web directory. Describes and categorizes Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.

Electronic version of Oxford reference books across a broad range of subjects. (more info)

A free-content encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can edit.