ILCS I300: Methods of Humanities Research and Criticism

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.

Features biographies of past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers and playwrights, critical analysis of their works, essays on literary topics and publishing houses, genres, literary period or movement, and summaries of the year's literary highlights. Includes all volumes of the Main series, the Documentary Series, and the Yearbook Series.

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.

The full text of the Oxford English Dictionary, with over 20 volumes of definitions, word histories and pronunciations.