Access a Range of Reliable Subject Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedias Online: Use Subject Encyclopedias to Understand Your TopicThis online guide links to a wide variety of reliable subject encyclopedias purchased by the library.
Find the Cultural, Historical, Political, and Social Context
Biography and Literary Biography:
- American National BiographyProfiles of more than 19,000 notable American men and women from all eras of U.S. history who are no longer alive. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references and bibliographies of interviews, biographies, and archival sources. Articles are added and updated regularly.
- Dictonary of Literary Biography Complete OnlineBiographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of literary figures from all eras and genres.
Discover the Social and Political Context:
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism2nd edition.
Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2013.
Online. Also available in 4 print volumes: Olin Reference E 184 .A1 E584 2013
Search narrative within the online version of this encyclopedia to find articles on the relationship between historical events and the way they are represented. - The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political MovementsHoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Online.
Contains over 400 articles exploring social and political movements and related collective phenomena throughout the world
Reference Databases: Cross-Search Collections of Reference Titles
- Gale Virtual Reference LibraryYou can search for reliable background articles on social sciences and humanities topics in this full-text database of reference encyclopedias.
- Oxford ReferenceAnother full-text database of reliable information from reference works (encyclopedias and dictionaries) published by Oxford University Press.
- Sage Reference OnlineA searchable, full-text database of reference works that focuses on the applied social sciences.
Reading Citations in Bibliographies
Learn how to tell the difference between a book, a journal or magazine article, and an article in a book in a reference list/bibliography in this 90-second video. Research Minutes: Reading Citations.