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Log into Blackboard, select the Library tab, and review your e-Reference options. The library offers twelve (12) e-reference databases: encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, companions, yearbooks and almanacs.
AccessScience -- The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Over 8,500 online articles, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners, and Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®.
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Combines over 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with over 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report.
Encyclopædia Britannica online (academic edition)
Over 73,000 articles, the Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world, containing both short and book-length articles on every subject. The database also includes: thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files, thousands of reviewed Web sites, hundreds of video clips, selected magazine and journal articles, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (thousands of entries with definitions, pronunciation guides, word histories, synonyms, and antonyms), comparative charts and tables using in-depth information about the countries of the world, more than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women, and a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- Over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library -- A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, 5v, 2005
Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., 10v, 2003
History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 6v, 2003
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 5v, 2000
Countries and Their Cultures, 4v, 2001
Contemporary American Religion, 2v, 2000
Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed., 2003
Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2v, 2003
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 15v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 10v, 1996
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed., 2001
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
A complete literature reference database containing Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, there are current, full-text critical essays on major authors from than 260 prominent literary journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Oxford English Dictionary online
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It 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 cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Reference Online (Premium)
Over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology (in PsyBOOKS)
The product of a unique collaboration between the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is a state-of-the-art synthesis of classic and contemporary knowledge. In more than 1,500 original articles written by distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia gives shape to a richly diverse science. International in scope and written for a wide range of readers, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is the first place to turn to for authoritative information on every area of the field—and for answers to literally thousands of questions about concepts, methods, theories, findings, major figures, schools of thought, and emerging areas of interest.
Statesman's Yearbook (on campus only)
Fully updated 2008 edition, containing information and analysis on every country in the world, including biographical profiles of current leaders, government histories, extended economic overviews and historical economic statistics, and half-page line maps.
World Almanacs
A fundamental reference source for students and scholars alike, including biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. Titles include: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
