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Basic Reference Sources : Encyclopedias

Selected Encyclopedias (print)

These are a sample of many encyclopedias in library collections.  For more resources of this type, search for encyclopedias in the Subject field of the Advanced Search of the Library Catalog

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online contains more than 130 subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. ORO covers general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional subjects.  It includes English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian as well as Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.