Encyclopedias
General Encyclopedias | Specialized Encyclopedias
General Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
http://0-www.britannica.com.tiger.coloradocollege.edu/
“Britannica Online is a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including the Britannica book of the year, and more.”
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Contains various reference titles on a vast array of topics.
Specialized Encyclopedias
- Oxford Reference Online Premium
- Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series
- The Encyclopaedia Of Islam
- Coverage: historical
- Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
- Encyclopedia Of Life Sciences
- Coverage: varies
- Features signed, peer-reviewed entries covering cell, molecular, and structural biology, microbiology, genetics, neuroscience, and plant science.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Coverage: varies
- Includes hundreds of specialized reference books on a variety of subjects. The contents are all available full text. Covers a wide variety of subject areas in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- The Grove Dictionary Of Art Online
- Coverage: N/A
- Comprehensive online reference source for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. The online version of the Grove Dictionary of Art (Tutt Reference, N31.D5 1996). Now part of Oxford Art Online.
- Grove Music Online
- A large collection of music reference information, encompassing The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. Grove is now a part of Oxford Music Online (OMO), and this resource includes The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. The following works will become available as content is published: The Grove Dictionary of American Music, the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Where content overlaps, entries from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are available.
Grzimek’s Animal Life
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/colorado?db=GZAL
Includes information on more than 4,000 species categorized by amphibians, birds, fish, insects, invertebrates, mammals and reptiles, including information on evolution, habitat, behavior, range and more. It is updated regularly by a worldwide network of experts, and includes immersive tools like interactive range maps and thousands of photos, videos, audio tracks.
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/
Mythology, folklore and legend from around the world are covered in this searchable online encyclopedia. 300 Subjects include Arthurian legend; Greek, Roman, Asian, African and Native American mythology; Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythology; Folklore; Judaic mythology.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.rep.routledge.com/advanced-search
Authoritative, scholarly entries on philosophers and philosophical topics. Also in print in the reference collection, B51.R68 1998.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Hundreds of entries on philosophers and philosophical topics, written and updated by experts in the field.
- Encyclopedia Of Pain
- Coverage: N/A
- A guide to the understanding of the broad, multi-faceted and complex topic of pain.
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