Olin Reference Collection
Encyclopedias are great for:
- choosing a topic
- educating yourself quickly
- perspective on a topic
- variant spellings, vocabulary, terminology
- bibliographies
Beyond Google & Wikipedia
Go beyond Wikipedia and use these databases to find authoritative background articles.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).
Full-text database of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press.
An index that searches inside over 10,000 specialized encyclopedias, compendia
and handbooks.
Selected Reference Sources
- The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
Call Number: Olin Library PS374.S5 C57x 2000
entry: Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964) - The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Call Number: Olin Reference PN81 J554 2005 +
entry: "Race and Ethnicity" - Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Entries cover important topics, events, and persons relevant to race and ethnicity in society. Also addresses other issues of inequality that intersect with race and ethnicity, including ability status, age, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
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