Reference tools can help you at every stage of your research. Use them to get an overview of central issues, better understand the context your are researching, and to gather more in-depth information. Good starting points include: Biographies, Book, Film and Theatre Reviews, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Statistics and Data Sets.
Detailed etymologies of words comprising the English language. This online version of the venerable OED is a work in progress; hundreds of new entries are added yearly.
Gateway to an impressive collection of art reference titles including Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
Access note: Limited to 8 simultaneous users.
Cross-searchable collection of more than 100 encyclopedias and handbooks from SAGE.
Cross-searchable collection of over two thousand reference titles from Gale. Previously known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.