Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) contains searchable full-text of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in many different subject fields.
Oxford Reference Online
Brings together over 100 dictionary, encyclopedia, language, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press in a single cross-searchable resource.
Grove's Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001). Covers all cultures from prehistory to the 1990s. Over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings are displayed in the text of 45,000 articles. Contains links to searchable image databases and over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world. Updated continuously.
Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online is a fully-searchable encyclopedia covering all aspects of the history of music, with articles about composers (including lists of works), performers, styles and genres, countries and cities, and instruments.
Encyclopedia of American Studies
The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides interdisciplinary coverage of the American experience, from pre-colonial days to the present. Over 660 articles cover areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
The Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (EIMC) seeks to provide "clear knowledge of the workings of the media and communications worldwide" and to outline possible futures. "Communications" is restricted to communications technology
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets, modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines, Intersecting fields, and Applications.
MIT Cognet: Reference Collection
Click on LIBRARY, then REFERENCES to search the full-text of 7 major reference works from the MIT Press: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, The Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, The Cognitive Neurosciences III, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, The Handbook of Multisensory Processes, The Visual Neurosciences, The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders.
Sage Reference Online
Dozens of encyclopedias and handbooks published between 2009-2011, primarily covering the social sciences.
Access Science (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online)
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology delivers full-text high-quality encyclopedia articles in all areas of science.
