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Online Encyclopedias & Dictionaries@Cleveland Library  

List of specialty encyclopedias that may be helpful for your research
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Databases

  • Access Science Encyclopedia
    Full-text science encyclopedia articles, biographies, bibliographies, videos, animations, news, study guides
  • American National Biography Online
    Biographies of prominent Americans
  • Brill Dictionary of Religion
    Addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse; richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment
  • Credo Reference
    A collection of online Reference Books; find quick answers or in-depth background information
  • Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing
    contains articles to provide business-themed definitions and sport-specific examples to illustrate and explain the academic sport management context
  • Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore
    Entries discuss the beliefs and customs defining the life of women around the world
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
    Provides over 25000 encyclopedic entries
  • Grove Art Online
    More than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images, also includes thematic timelines
  • Hoover's Company Records
    Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives; Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more
  • Literary Reference Center
    Comprehensive literary reference database, provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. Combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else
  • Magill's Medical Guide
    Online version: covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Published by the Oxford University Press
  • Oxford Reference Online
    Electronic versions of some specialized reference titles
  • Student Research Center
    Research interface for secondary school students, includes Teacher Resources link
  • World Almanac
    Essential and authoritative facts for entertainment, reference and learning
  • World Digital Library
    United Nations site bringing together, in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
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