Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia, into a single cross-searchable web database for the first time. And the best of all: Students and staff of the university of munich have free access if logged in via a university network. Very useful is the fulltext search of ALL 60.000 pages. For special anthropological use may be of interest the various dictionaries on mythology, religions and world history.

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"The concluding line of Herman Melville’s classic American short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" reads: "Ah Bartleby, Ah Humanity!" And so, Bartleby.com—after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist—publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant. Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web (Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious." And they really stand up to their self-description ... Items of special interest for the cultural anthropologist are for example a (shortened) 1922 edition of J. G. Frazer's The golden bough and Edward Sapir's An introduction to the study of speech. --zeph

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One of the most important encyclopaedias of germany is now online: Meyers Konversationslexikon in the edition from 1888. This is still useful as you can find here sometimes more information on historical topics than in newer editions. Via Netbib.

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