Online Encyclopedias
Use Online Encyclopedias to gather background information and keywords about your research topic. Subject encyclopedias can be especially useful starting points.
Subject Encyclopedias
Online Reference Collections
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Use Online Reference Collections to search across many online reference titles simultaneously.
Online Reference Collections
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowExcellent starting place for gathering insight and exploring the pros and cons of issues in the news.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowGreat place to start your research! Search across hundreds of reference titles and link out to other library databases.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text online access to a growing collection of reference books. Search titles individually or search multiple titles simultaneously.
- Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new windowBrings together news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more on a variety of topics in all major disciplines.
- Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new windowProvides information about authors and their works. Includes author biographies, interviews, plot summaries, literary criticism, full-text literary journals, book reviews and more.
- Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowAn electronic library of literary information including literary criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, and periodical articles.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowName change from Grove Dictionary of Art to Oxford Dictionary of Art in 2008. Online full-text of the original 34 volume Dictionary of Art.
- Oxford Bibliographies - Art History This link opens in a new windowAn ever-expanding series of expert bibliographies in the field of art history.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive English language dictionary, the OED provides meanings, history, and pronunciation for words, present and past.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowMore commonly known as Grove Music Online. Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
- Salem History This link opens in a new windowOnline access to Salem's Decade series and Milestone Documents in American History
- Salem Literature This link opens in a new windowOnline access to Salem's Survey of Long Fiction and many titles in their Critical Insights series.