Encyclopedias & Dictionaries  

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Online version of the multi-volume set that provides scholarly biographies of important people in all walks of American life.

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.

Provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.

Contains the complete texts of almost 300 encyclopedies, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works from Blackwell Publishing, including the Blackwell Companions.

A comprehensive encyclopedia on China, covering a variety of subjects.

Online version of the famous encyclopedia.

A collection of specialized reference works.

Online version of the six-volume set from Charles Scribner's (2004). Interdisciplinary discussion of concepts in culture, theory, and thought.

Online version of the 60-volume reference set that provides scholarly biographies important people in British history.

Current, online version of the famous dictionary.

Contains the complete texts of over 100 Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles.

Contains 307 books, 4,133 book chapters, 17,322 encyclopedia entries, and 6,621 images.

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.