Articles & Databases
43 resources found.
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Brill Online Reference Works
Browse and search over 60 reference titles related to history, international relations, law, language and linguistics, religious and Jewish studies, and the study of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the classical world. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online library of reference titles for multi-disciplinary research, including texts related to American and world history, biography, health, arts, business, travel, religion, and multicultural studies. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Titles cover a wide range of humanities, social science, performing arts, and general reference subjects. Dance publications include the International Encyclopedia of Dance and the Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Theatre publications include The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance and The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. **Patrons should read the Oxford Reference Online Privacy Policy before searching.**
Credo Reference
Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
African American Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Great resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate users. Browse by type of content and by era. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
American Indian Experience
Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians. Ideal resource for middle school, high school, and undergraduate research on American Indian history. Fully searchable, or browsable by era, tribe, state, and region. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on 650,000+ people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. For more in-depth biographies of figures from American history, consult American National Biography. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Catholic Encyclopedia
Contains full and authoritative information on Catholic interests, action, and doctrine.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world enclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. It can be searched by place name or full-text.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Country Studies - Library of Congress
Details of a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online
Covers the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. Encompasses old Arabo-Islamic empire, Iran, Central Asia, India, Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. Full-text (encyclopedia). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Encyclopedia Judaica
Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Estudantil Hallazgos
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is a dedicated Spanish-language database contains videos, selected articles, and a visual dictionary to allow ESL students and Spanish-learners the chance to learn.
Europa World Plus
Online edition of the Europa World Year Book and Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political, economic, and historical information, including statistics, for over 250 countries and territories. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
This digital collection provides access to primary sources on American social and cultural history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It provides thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides addressing political, social, and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. It emphasizes conduct of life and domestic management literature, and contrasts in regional, rural, and urban cultures. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Explora Elementary
Searches across content geared toward elementary school students, such as Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Children's Dictionary. Includes material previously accessed through Searchasaurus and Kids Search.**Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO [grades 5-8]
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Information Please Almanac
Includes full-text of the Information Please Almanac as well as an online dictionary and an online encyclopedia.
Kids InfoBits
A child-friendly database which searches across reference books and periodicals covering history, current events, sports, government, and people. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Latino American Experience
Covers history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Features peer-reviewed essays, reference sources, primary documents, media, newspapers, and magazines. **Patrons should read the Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Literati
See Credo Reference.
Oxford Music Online
RILM: Music Encyclopedias
RILM Music Encyclopedias is a unique collection of 49 seminal encyclopedias in full text, comprising over 100,000 pages and including historical and current encyclopedias published between 1775 and 2018. It is international in scope, providing access to content written in the key languages of musicological research, among them English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, and Slovak. It is the first comprehensive collection of encyclopedia content spanning the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas of historical musicology and ethnomusicology, with subject-specific focus on topics ranging from popular music, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to recorded music and women composers. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Please note: When you click on the link you will see the option to choose either Enyclopedias or Abstracts, please select Encyclopedias.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
A historical archive of several million cross-searchable pages of books, serials, supreme court records and briefs, and key manuscript collections from the United States, Great Britain, and France concerning debates of slavery and abolition, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Institution of Slavery, and the Age of Emancipation. Provides a context for further research through links to chronology, biographies, bibliographies, and websites.
Statistical Insight
Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available.
U.S. History in Context
Coverage of the most-studied U.S. history topics including from the arrival of Vikings in North America, American Revolution, Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror through a web-like experience that supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. Noted for access to primary source documents. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Very Short Introductions
The full text of the entire catalog of Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series. The books in this platform offer concise overviews to a range of academic subjects in the arts & humanities, law, medicine & health, science & mathematics, and social sciences. **Patrons should read Very Short Introduction's Privacy Policy before searching.**
World Book Advanced
World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool, perfect for high-school students, that integrates reference articles, eBooks, and primary source databases in a single search.
World Book Discover
World Book Discover offers foundational content on a variety of topics ideal for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students.
World Book eBooks
World Book eBooks contains highly illustrated, engaging titles, interactive games, quizzes and activities that span the curriculum and reading levels, for all ages and all subjects.
World Book Kids
World Book Kids is a children's encyclopedia, with articles, images, videos, games, science projects, an illustrated dictionary, and more.
World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, animations, maps and more.
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World Book Student
World Book Student offers eBooks, videos, activities, primary sources, read-aloud, and factual information on the states and countries around the world.