E-Reference Collection
E-Reference Collection
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In addition to our large collection of printed reference works, the CSI Library also has an extensive collection of electronic reference titles. Use the following electronic resources to find quick facts, definitions, statistics, biographies, and general topic overviews.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Free, online edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (published in 1919). Contains over 11,000 searchable quotations, phrases, and proverbs from the ancient and classical world and traces them back to their sources in literature. - Biography Reference Bank
Find biographies of noted individuals as well as links to biographical profiles, articles, interviews, and obituaries published in books and periodicals since 1984. Includes some full text. - Cambridge Collections Online
Full text of the Cambridge Companions book series with over 320 titles and 70,000 essays, which provide introductions and overviews of major topics and figures in literature, art, philosophy, and religion. Also includes the Shakespeare Survey series, a compendium of Shakespeare criticism with each volume devoted to a particular theme or group of plays.. - Country Studies
Descriptions and analyses of the social, economic, political, and military systems of countries throughout the world. - Encyclopedia Americana
General encyclopedia covering arts, geography, history, religion, philosophy, sports, science, technology and current events. - Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Full text encyclopedia; useful for locating world facts, topical overviews, and personal biographies. - Gale Virtual Reference Library
Digital reference collection containing over 400 full text encyclopedias, almanacs, handbooks, and specialized reference books. Search all titles or browse titles by subject. - Grolier Online
Search full text encyclopedias such as Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. - Oxford Art Online
A comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. Find artist biographies, images of art works, definitions of key terms, and encyclopedia articles on art history topics. - Oxford English Dictionary
Comprehensive dictionary providing the meaning, history, and pronunciation for more than a half million words in the English language, past and present. Print edition located in Reference [Call Number: PE1625.O87]. - Oxford Music Online
A comprehensive music reference work covering all aspects of popular and classical music. Find artist/composer biographies, definitions of key terms, descriptions of major musical works and instruments, and encyclopedia articles on musical genres, styles, and traditions. - Oxford Reference Online
Digital collection of online reference books in all fields of study including dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and subject reference works. Search by keyword or browse titles by subject. - Salem History
Full text history reference books from Salem Press. Provides general information about historical eras, events, and figures. Includes titles such as Milestone Documents, The Decades, Great Lives from History, and Great Events from History. - Wolfram|Alpha
A computational knowledge search engine, which is alleged to "answer" research questions instead of simply providing links to relevant web sites. It offers everything from definitions, biographies, and statistics to mathematical formulas, chemical properties, and stock quotes. - World Fact Book
U.S. government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and military. Print edition available at the Reference Desk [Call Number: G122.U56a 2001].
For more in-depth research and comprehensive resource listings, see our research guides by subject.