This e-book collection contains numerous encyclopedias and handbooks for the following areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, General Reference, History, Information and Publishing, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, & Technology.
This e-book collection contains 224 titles covering all subject areas. There are specialized dictionaries/handbooks for Art, Biology, Literature, Performing Arts, Religion, Science, and more.
Not a standard dictionary, the OED includes etymologies of over 600,000 words, providing more than 3.5 million quotations to illustrate context and usage. Current definitions are included, but the emphasis is on word history.
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Additional online encyclopedias are listed by discipline on the library guide Online Encyclopedias, maintained by Library Instruction Services.