Encyclopedias and Reference Tools: Encyclopedias

Find books, magazines, journals, newspapers, and audio visual materials.

A combined catalog of over 7.8 million books and other library materials from many of Ohio's universities, colleges, community colleges, and the State Library of Ohio.

Explore 1000's of downloadable e-books in a variety of subjects, including academic areas, classic literature, fiction, and more.

Use the Electronic Journal Finder to determine whether a particular journal (and article) is available online.

Contains full text articles from more than 10,000 academic journals from top scholarly publishers, academic societies, and university presses. The EJC covers a wide range of disciplines and contains just published scientific research as well as historical journal articles.

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Reference works focusing on the lives and events that have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. Click "Subject" beneath the Oxford Reference heading to select from a list of specific subjects.

More than 1.3 million pages of primary source documents, books, documents, and selections fully integrated with the encyclopedia content. Research and teaching tools include timelines, citation builder, and saved research.