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Welcome to Reference Site of the Day! My goal is to review and post one reference website per day. I plan to feature a variety of sites, including academic, scientific, government and statistics sources. Reference Site of the Day keeps you informed with the new and classic reference sources from around the web.

The first reference site I'd like to feature is the the fully digitized Dictionary of the History of Ideas (DHI). Maintained by the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library, DHI is a digitized and indexed text of the reference text of the same title by Philip Weiner, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-4. An updated 6 volume version, The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, was published also by Charles Scribner's Sons (a Gale imprint) in 2004, and judged by RUSA to be "an outstanding reference source."

Concepts covered in DHI are accessible by alphabetical, subject and author browsing, as well as advanced searching capabilities.

I came across this wonderful web reference while answering a reference question on the history of the concept of love.