Computer Science Resources: Reference Sources

An electronic (e-reference) collection providing access to entries in over 500 encyclopedias and other reference works. Also provides access to art, science, and medical images, audio pronunciation files and atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world.

This online reference collection provides full-text access in PDF and html formats to more than 200 major reference works published since 2000, including encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, and handbooks by publishers such as Berkshire, Cambridge, Macmillan, Sage, Scribner, Sharpe, St. James, Thomson Gale, and Wiley.

Provides a single interface for searching more than 20 Oxford encyclopedias and 175 language and subject dictionaries and reference works, including the Oxford Companion series, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and Visual English Dictionary. Covers all areas of science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business.