American Heritage® Dictionary, Fourth Edition
Over 200,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

Britannica Encyclopedia
A rich source of answers to questions about the full range of human knowledge, with more than 25,000 alphabetical entries, covering the arts, business, computers, geography, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, politics and popular culture.

Copyright Basics
Everything you need to know about copyrights from the source - the U.S. Copyright Office.

Elements of Style
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Encarta Reference
Microsoft's online reference center features a searchable Encyclopedia, World English Dictionary, and World Atlas.

Fair Use Doctrine: Part 1
An introduction to the fair use exception in the Copyright act, how to determine fair use, its implications, interpretation and guidelines, by Lloyd L. Rich.

Giving Credit and Requesting Permission
Explains issues of copying, quoting, and requesting permission to use other writers' materials, by O'Reilly & Associates.

Grumpy Martha's Guide to Grammar and Usage
You can sound smarter in just 10 minutes. This list isn't comprehensive, but it covers most of the frequent mistakes.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Containing 260,000 synonyms and cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.

World Factbook
The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data.

Writing Guides
An outstanding collection of over 700 writing guides covering topics on document production, speeches and presentations, social science and qualitative research, working with graphics and tables, and more.