Encyclopedias
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General Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
http://search.eb.com/
“Britannica Online is a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including the Britannica book of the year, and more.”
Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Contains “nearly 51,000 entries…and more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references….” on a vast array of topics.
Specialized Encyclopedias
- Oxford Reference Online Premium
- Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series
- The Encyclopaedia Of Islam
- Coverage: historical
- Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
- Encyclopedia Of Life Sciences
- Coverage: varies
- Features signed, peer-reviewed entries covering cell, molecular, and structural biology, microbiology, genetics, neuroscience, and plant science.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Coverage: varies
- Includes hundreds of specialized reference books on a variety of subjects. The contents are all available full text. Covers a wide variety of subject areas in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- The Grove Dictionary Of Art Online
- Coverage: N/A
- Comprehensive online reference source for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. The online version of the Grove Dictionary of Art (Tutt Reference, N31.D5 1996). Now part of Oxford Art Online.
- Grove Music Online
- Coverage: N/A
- 25 million words, hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to musical sites - Grove is an essential companion and tool for scholars of classical, world, and contemporary music and musicians. Other articles, from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, are available via a link from the primary article. Grove is included in the Oxford Music Online resource.
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/
Mythology, folklore and legend from around the world are covered in this searchable online encyclopedia. 300 Subjects include Arthurian legend; Greek, Roman, Asian, African and Native American mythology; Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythology; Folklore; Judaic mythology.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.rep.routledge.com/advanced-search
Authoritative, scholarly entries on philosophers and philosophical topics. Also in print in the reference collection, B51.R68 1998.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Hundreds of entries on philosophers and philosophical topics, written and updated by experts in the field.
- Encyclopedia Of Pain
- Coverage: N/A
- A guide to the understanding of the broad, multi-faceted and complex topic of pain.
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