Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Databases
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Britannica Online |
Britannica Online® delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. |
1998-present |
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| CQ Press Political Reference Suite |
Includes seven titles: Congress and the Nation; Historic Documents Series; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; Supreme Court Yearbook; |
1945-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Provides full text access to more than 100 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. |
2000-present |
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| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Biographies of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. |
Romans to 21st Century |
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| Oxford English Dictionary |
The OED traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and |
The last millennium-present |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda |
2000-present |
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| Oxford Music Online |
Oxford Music Online includes the most comprehensive scholarly encyclopedia of music in the English language. Coverage of music of all times and places. |
Ancient times-present |
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| Oxford Reference |
Oxford Digital Reference provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences. |
Ancient world to present |
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| Political Reference Suite |
Includes seven titles: Congress and the Nation; Historic Documents Series; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; Supreme Court Yearbook; |
1945-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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| Salem History |
Provides full text access to subject encyclopedias, primarily about American history. |
1700s-present |
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