| Britannica Online | Updated daily. Includes contents of the print version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Book of the Year and additional articles. (UT Austin users) |
| Columbia Encyclopedia | 2005 edition derived from the large one volume general encyclopedia. |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | Biographical information for authors from all eras and summaries of critical response to their work. (UT Austin users) |
| Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia | Brief articles. Annual updates. (UT Austin users) |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Includes subject encyclopedias from many academic disciplines. (UT Austin users) |
| Grove Dictionary of Art Online | Includes updates to the existing 41,000 articles of the print edition as well as over 15,000 links to the web sites of museums and galleries around the world with more than 100,000 color images (UT Austin users) |
| Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online | Includes regular online updates of the complete text of the print edition and links to thousands of images, digital sound files and other related web sites (UT Austin users) |
| Handbook of Texas Online | Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture has more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and more |
| Merck Manuals | Encyclopedic medical manuals |
| MSN Encarta Encyclopedia | Articles from Microsoft's online encyclopedia |
| Oxford Reference Online | More than 100 subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works from Oxford University Press (UT Austin users) |
| Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia | The 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1911, is being transcribed by Project Gutenberg under this new title. Only volume one is currently available. [The current version, called Britannica Online is available for UT Austin users] |
| Reference Books Online | Commonly used reference books online available to UT Austin users |
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | This CD-ROM database is available only in UT libraries on UT Library Online Stations. Features searchable text of all printed volumes of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Wikipedia | This is an experimental open-content encyclopedia produced by volunteers and is not peer reviewed. Contains more than 300,000 articles. |
| Other Specialized Encyclopedias | Links to specialized encyclopedias freely available on the Internet |