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Encyclopedias

Online Reference Collections: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and More

Just getting started? Try one of our comprehensive online reference libraries:

Credo Reference
Access more than 500 highly regarded, current reference works, including general and subject-specific encyclopedias, images, dictionaries, atlases, and directories; covers many subject areas

Oxford Reference Online
Access more than 100 reference works including subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, and directories, published by Oxford University Press; covers many subject areas

Subject-Specific Encyclopedia Collections

ABC-CLIO Reference Collection
Search all of our titles from ABC-CLIO at once; individual titles are listed by subject below

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search all of our titles from Gale at once; individual titles are listed by subject below

Sage Reference Collection
Search all of our titles from Sage at once; individual titles are listed by subject below

General Encyclopedias

Britannica - Academic Edition

Subject-Specific Encyclopedias

Click on the arrow to see all of the titles for one of the subjects listed below.

Arts, Music, and Theater
Business
Education
Environmental Sciences
Health and Medicine
History
Law
Literature
Math
Philosophy and Ethics
Political Science
Religion
Science
Social Science
Sports, Recreation, and Tourism
Technology
The World

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