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Encyclopedias
	AccessScience - Full Text Over 7100 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.
	Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
	Britannica 1911 Edition - Full Text The 1911 Britannica is considered by some the most authoritative and scholarly English-language encyclopedia ever written. Although now dated, still very valuable for historical materials.
	Britannica Online - Full Text Full content including over 80,000 in-depth articles, detailed maps, multimedia, and research tools.
	Encyclopaedia Judaica [Gale] - Full Text 2nd edition, with entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
	Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas - Full Text
	Encyclopedia of Evolution [Oxford] - Full Text
	Encyclopedia of Global Change [Oxford] - Full Text
	Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture - Full Text 2nd edition, offering multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters & the arts.
	Encyclopedia of Multicultural America [Gale] - Full Text Contains essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages and includes historical background and settlement patterns.
	Encyclopedia of Religion [Gale] - Full Text The second edition of Eliade’s definitive work, this resource includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries, many heavily updated, as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles, including illustrations and visual essays.
	Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender - Full Text Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and social level, including these issues: Identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; sexuality; social institutions; and structures of representation.
	Encyclopedia of Social Work - Full Text 20th edition of the definitive encyclopedia in this field; co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press.
	Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment [Oxford] - Full Text
	Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages [Oxford] - Full Text
	Gale Virtual Reference Library - MLIN - Full Text Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
	Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture [Oxford] - Full Text
	Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts [Oxford] - Full Text
	International Encyclopedia of Dance [Oxford] - Full Text Covers cultural and national dance plus entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performance, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
	International Encyclopedia of Linguistics [Oxford] - Full Text
	New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Gale] - Full Text The NDHI is a comprehensive work that discusses the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the twenty-first century in all fields across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East.
	New Encyclopedia of Africa - Full Text Covers the entire history of African cultures from the ancient civilizations of Egypt and the south, through colonialism, to the present. Topical coverage includes global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism.
	Oxford Art Online - Full Text Covers every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present including art movements, media and materials, themes and subjects, specific places and monuments, and 21,000 individual artists. Supplemented by bibliographies and image links.
	Oxford Companion to World Exploration [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation [Oxford] - Full Text
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance [Oxford] - Full Text Covers theater performance from ancient to modern times; also covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance.
	Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History [Oxford] - Full Text Topical articles covering geography, history, culture, society, organizations, and movements, plus biographical articles on influential women.
	Oxford Music Online - Full Text Grove Music Online - New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera & New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Also includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
	Oxford Reference Online Premium - Full Text Access to Oxford University Press' series of reference dictionaries and companions, including illustrations, web links, and searching individual titles or by subject area.
	Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Full Text - Help This is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy featuring over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy.
	West's Encyclopedia of American Law [Gale] - Full Text Contains nearly 5,000 entries devoted to terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S. law.

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