Encyclopedias & Dictionaries – Best Bets
- Britannica Academic
High-quality, comprehensive information, including access to the Britannica encyclopedia, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. More info - CQ Press Library
Includes six titles: CQ Almanac; CQ Researcher; CQ Magazine; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; and Supreme Court Yearbook. More info - CQ Reference Books at Sage
A collection of government and political eBooks. More info - Credo Reference
Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. More info - Dictionary of Literary Biography
Featuring comprehensive literary biographies, you'll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. More info - Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society
Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. More info - Encyclopedia of Global Health
Contributors are scholars and specialists in health-related fields. More info - Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
Contributors are scholars and specialists including geographers, political scientists, chemists, anthropologists, medical practitioners, development experts, and sociologists. More info - Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Covers popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day. More info - Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the Encyclopedia of Social Work is widely considered the cornerstone of reference in its field. More info - Gale eBooks
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. More info - Gale Literary Sources
Provides combined access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online, and Something About the Author Online. More info - Gale Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines. More info - Grove Dictionary of Art
Limited to 11 simultaneous users. Oxford Art Online contains the full text of the The Grove Dictionary of Art with over 45,000 articles and thousands of images. More info - Grove Music Online
The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory, and cultures of music around the globe. More info - Literary Reference Source Plus
Contains full text for classic texts, plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism essays, author biographies and interviews, literary journals, book reviews, and poems. More info - Oxford Art Online
Limited to 11 simultaneous users. Contains the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. More info - Oxford Dictionary of Music
Over 12,500 entries covering musical subjects of all kinds including entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics. More info - Oxford English Dictionary
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. More info - Oxford Handbooks
Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve. More info - Oxford Music Online
Provides access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which includes The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. More info - Oxford Reference
Provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences. More info - Political Handbook of the World
Provides thorough and accurate information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. More info - Sage Knowledge
Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info - Salem Press Online
Provides full text access to subject encyclopedias, primarily about American history. More info