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  • American National Biography  
      
    Online version of the multi-volume set that provides scholarly biographies of important people in all walks of American life.
  • Biography Resource Center  
      
    Information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes content from dozens of published reference works and hundreds of periodicals.
  • Blackwell Reference Online  
      
    Contains the complete texts of almost 300 encyclopedies, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works from Blackwell Publishing, including the Blackwell Companions.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica  
      
    Online version of the famous encyclopedia.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library  
      
    A collection of specialized reference works.
  • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas  
      
    Online version of the six-volume set from Charles Scribner's (2004). Interdisciplinary discussion of concepts in culture, theory, and thought.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  
      
    Online version of the 60-volume reference set that provides scholarly biographies important people in British history.
  • Oxford English Dictionary  
      
    Current, online version of the famous dictionary.
  • Oxford Reference Online  
      
    Contains the complete texts of over 100 Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles.
  • Pop Culture Universe  
      
    Contains 307 books, 4,133 book chapters, 17,322 encyclopedia entries, and 6,621 images.
  • Reference Universe  
      
    Search across the indexes of many reference works with this unique tool. Earlham does not have all of the works indexed; the little book icon next to the title indicates we have it.
 

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