Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Other Online Resources

  • Biography In Context open database
    Provides access to Gale Group biographical sources with full–text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. Includes the Complete Marquis Who’’s Who for quick reference information.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Books & Authors open database
    Wondering what to read next? Books & Authors explores the latest genre fiction, essential non-fiction and the authors behind the titles.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Discovering Collection open database
    To meet the needs of today’s students, the Discovering Collection provides in-depth content for five core curriculum areas, specifically: Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Literature Resource Center open database
    Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Student Resources In Context open database
    Resources for secondary students on many curriculum topics, including overviews, biographies, timelines, plot summaries and audio clips.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • World History In Context open database
    Designed with the student in mind, it covers events and people that have shaped the world from ancient to modern times.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown

Referencing Resources

Recommended

  • Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre open database
    The Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals in full text; full text reference books; over 80,000 full text biographies and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - current
  • Britannica Online open database
    Encyclopaedia Britannica Online offers over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web’s best sites, – and much more.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library open database
    Database of encyclopaedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context open database
    This online resource covers a range of current social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Oxford English Dictionary open database
    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • Press Display open database
    Online newspapers and magazines from around the world.
    Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown
  • ProQuest Newsstand open database
    Search a range of newspapers, including full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources.
    Coverage Dates: 1984 - current
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