Databases
Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society
Full-text articles on various types of games, history of games and other aspects of play and recreational activity
Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture
Essays and overviews of interactions between politics, media and popular culture.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Covers all genres and periods of popular music, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
Encyclopedia on literary studies after the end of the colonial era.
Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
Full-text articles covering topics on race and crime.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
Full-text articles on theory, history and practice. Published 2001.
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
Full-text articles about signs and symbols in human culture. Published 1998.
Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)
Subject entries and brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Full text articles on core concepts in sociology.
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Full-text articles on thought, society and culture.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Full-text articles covering the period from the 5th to the 15th century, with a focus on Europe and Christianity.
Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
Full-text articles covering topics on urban studies
Girl Culture : An Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia on social conditions of girls, primarily in American culture.
Grant Connect
Includes Canadian and some American grant-making foundations. Search by grantmakers or grant recipients.
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
Based on the 2007 print edition. Includes in-depth articles on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture of the Classical period.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Growing collection of digitized texts from a consortium of American research universities.
Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary
Historical thesaurus of English vocabulary, from Old English to the present
History of Feminism
Primary and secondary source material on feminism in the 19th century.
International Encyclopedia of Dance
Full-text articles on the theatrical, ritual, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social aspects of dance.
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Full-text articles focussing on interdisciplinary aspects of linguistics. Published 2003.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Full-text encyclopedia with entries for critics, theorists, schools and movements.
Literature Online
Full text of more than 355,000 works in English, American and Canadian literature.
Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Reference articles on world music topics with audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.
OED : Oxford English Dictionary
The full text of the 20-volume 2nd edition (1989) plus regular updates.
Oxford Companion to Canadian History
An authoritative source on all aspects of Canadian history
Oxford Companion to Global Change
Comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to the range of issues surrounding natural and human-induced changes in the Earth's environment.
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Contains over 2,200 entries written by 291 authoritative philosophers with a wide breadth and depth of coverage.
Oxford Companion to the Mind
Scholarly one volume companion to the fields of mind, brain and consciousness
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies, from the 4th century to the 21st.
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
More than 3,000 entries covering covers all areas of philosophy.