E-Reference books may provide access to reference sources. Some of these books are also available in print.
- ABC-CLIO Ebooks
Over 200+ ebooks covering a broad range of subjects.
- Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on more than half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.
- Biography Reference Center
Biography Reference Center™ offers a comprehensive collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
- English Poetry
The original ground-breaking Chadwyck-Healey collection, English Poetry contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
- Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
- Grove Dictionary of Art (Please log out when finished)
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Provides constant additions of new material and updates to the original text, as well as extensive image links and sophisticated search advantages.
database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues.
- Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is 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.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium Edition
Brings together Oxford's core collection of renowned reference works into a single cross-searchable resource with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy features 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers. Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Includes over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and new links to other editorially reviewed websites.
- Sage E-reference
A collection of over 35 encyclopedias and handbooks covering a variety of topics in the social sciences and medicine.
- Salem Press History Collection
Access to the following Salem Press titles online: Milestone Documents in American History, The Seventies in America, The Fifties in America, The Sixties in America, Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e., Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages, Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600, Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century, Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century, Great Lives from History: The Eighteenth Century, and Great Events from History: Modern Scandals.
- Salem Press Literature Collection
Access to the following Salem Press titles online:Critical Insights: Authors Isabel Allende James Baldwin Charles Dickens Benjamin Franklin Stephen King Arthur Miller John Steinbeck Critical Insights: Works All Quiet on the Western Front Canterbury Tales, The House on Mango Street, The One Hundred Years of Solitude Poetry of Poe Slaughterhouse-Five Things Fall Apart Critical Surveys Long Fiction American Poets British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets European Poets World Poets Cumulative Indexes, Poetry Topical Essays, Poetry
- Something About the Author
Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.
- World History: Ancient World History
Covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
- World History: Modern World History
Covers human history in all corners of the globe from Renaissance to current.
