Databases by Subject: Reference Sources

Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from international English language sources. Full-text.

Online reference library containing the full text of hundreds of reference titles, including dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles, featuring in-depth articles, images, sound files, animations, and videos. Full-text.

1998 - Present. Multidisciplinary specialized encyclopedias and reference sources. Full-text. Gale

Discover the best of Oxford's reference titles - on a dynamic digital platform. Titles inlcuded: Oxford Companion to Beer ; Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.) ; Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.) Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.) ; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) ; Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.) ; Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.) ; Oxford Companion to Wine (4 ed.) ; Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History ; Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.