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Electronic Resources for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
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Articles in Databases
| Title | Description | Full Text |
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Britannica Online |
Encyclopedia. | Full Text |
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Britannica Online School Edition |
Encyclopedia. | Full Text |
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
Encyclopedia. | Full Text |
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Global Reference Center |
Reference resources in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, and Spanish. | Full Text |
| Merriam-Webster OnLine | Dictionary and thesaurus | Full Text |
| OneLook Dictionaries | Dictionary | Full Text |
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Oxford English Dictionary |
Dictionary/English language. | Full Text |
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Oxford Reference Online Premium |
100+ reference books and dictionaries. | Full Text |
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E-Books
| Title | Description | Full Text |
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| 9/11 Encyclopedia | E-book. Terrorism, terrorist attacks, September 11th terrorist attacks, history | Full Text |
| A to Z of Homosexuality | E-book. Homosexuality, Dictionary. | Full Text |
| Anti-immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia | E-book. Political science, emigration and immigration | Full Text |
| Civil War Naval Encyclopedia | E-book. History, United States Civil War, military science | Full Text |
| Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia | E-book. Islam, government, history, military science, political science | Full Text |
| Dictionary of Food Ingredients | E-book. Food, goof additives, family and consumer sciences | Full Text |
| Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins | E-book. Anonyms and pseudonyms | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior | E-book. Animals, animal behavior, biology, zoology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2010 | E-book. Constitutional amendments, amendments, law, criminal justice, political science | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory | E-book. Criminology, crime, criminal behavior, criminal justice | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies | E-book. Education, curriculum planning | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Disaster Management | E-book. Emergency management, criminal justice, sociology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent | E-book. Education, educational change | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Emotion | E-book. Emotions, psychology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Geography | E-book. Geography | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights | E-book. Gun control, criminal justice, law, sociology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Identity | E-book. Identity, philosophy | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Invasive Species: From Africanized Honey Bees to Zebra Mussels | E-book. Biology, introduced organisms | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management | E-book. Business, labor, knowledge management, information resources, information networks | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Motherhood | E-book. Motherhood, sociology, family, marriage, women | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History | E-book. Muslims, Religion | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Native American Artists | E-book. Visual art, Indian artists | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775: A Political, Social, and Military History | E-book. History, military science, political science, sociology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607-1890 | E-book. History, Indians of North America | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Perception | E-book. Perception, senses and sensation, psychology | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Political Science | E-book. Political science | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Political Theory | E-book. Political science | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Pollution | E-book. Pollution | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Research Design | E-book. Social sciences, research design | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence | E-book. Education, school violence, crime | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing | E-book. Sports, sports management, sports administration, sports marketing | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine | E-book. Sports medicine, sports injuries | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of the Heart and Heart Disease | E-book. Health, medicine, heart disease. | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America | E-book. Veterans, military science, history | Full Text |
| Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History | E-book. Vietnam War, history, military science, political science, sociology | Full Text |
| Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Encyclopedia | E-book. History, Civil War, military science | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of Choral Music | E-book. Choral music | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater, 1930-2010 | E-book. Drama, theater | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy | E-book. Philosophy, psychology, Martin Heidegger | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of the Civil War | E-book. History, military science | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement | E-book. Olympics, history, physical education | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II | E-books. Foreign relations, World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, political science, history. | Full Text |
| Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy | E-book. United States Navy, history, military science | Full Text |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia | E-book. Education | Full Text |
| Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans | E-book. Multiculturalism, immigrants, ethnology, minorities, history, sociology | Full Text |
| Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History | E-books. Political science, government, history. | Full Text |
| Sage Encyclopedia of Terrorism (2nd ed.) | E-book. Emergency management, terrorist attacks, mass media, history | Full Text |
| Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1494-2007 | E-book. . Military science, history | Full Text |
| World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States | E-book. Slavery, African Americans, history | Full Text |
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Streaming Videos
| Title | Description | Full Text |
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| Films On Demand | Streaming educational videos on various subjects. | Full Text |
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