Reference Sources

Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Full text reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more.

Biographies of over 30,000 African-Americans from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.

Enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources.

References 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 current and retrospective reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Citations to biographies published in books, magazines, and journals.

Cites more than 2,700 periodicals and 1,800 books, including individual and collective biographies, as well as juvenile literature.

The largest dictionary of word descriptions and history of usage.

Also available in print in Main Library Reference -- PE1625.M7 1989.

Directory of community services and resources.

CollegeSource® Online features over 13,624 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

Full text directories:

• Directories in Print
• Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
• Encyclopedia of American Religion
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Associations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Associations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Associations
• Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
• Gale Directory of Databases
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• Government Research Centers Directory
• International Research Centers Directory
• Newsletters in Print
• Publishers Directory
• Research Centers Directory.

Gale's Ready Reference Shelf provides integrated access to 355,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale's most popular reference directories.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

Full text records from the Encyclopedia of Animals describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs offers a fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike, includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.

A directory of over 200,000 book, audio, and videocassette publishers, distributors, agents, and wholesalers.

Prices, frequency of publication, addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web addresses for journals, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals worldwide. Indicates available formats, intended audience, special features (i.e. reviews, whether a journal is refereed) and indexing/abstracting services coverage.