Reference Databases

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• This quicksearch option searches across a number of encyclopedias.
• It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
• To link to the full-text of articles (if available), click on the SFX button :

General Encyclopedias

• Enclyclopaedia Britannica
  included in Britannica Online
• Columbia Encyclopedia
  50,000 articles and 40,000 citations from the 6th edition 2000.

Subject Encyclopedias

See also the large collection of subject encyclopedias in Oxford Reference browse the list

You can also find subject encyclopedias in Knovel and EBL

Find online encyclopedias in the library catalogue

Selection of Subject Encyclopedias:

• AccessScience
• Ecyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
• Encyclopedia of Smart Materials
• Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
• Handbook of Psychology
• Internet Encyclopedia
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine

Wikis

• Wikipedia
  Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create an accurate and comprehensive free-content encyclopedia.
  All content is created and edited by participants.

Dictionaries

• Oxford Reference Online
  includes over 100 dictionaries, including specialist subject dictionaries, plus other reference works
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary via Britannica Online

Thesauri

• Merriam-Webster Colegiate Thesaurus via Britannica Online
• Roget's II: the new thesaurus 3rd edition
• Lexical FreeNet

English Usage & Style Guides

• Elements of style
  The classic work by William Strunk on use of the English language
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
  Grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms

Quotations

• Oxford Reference Online
  includes The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and
  The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  the 10th edition of 1919
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
  1950-1988

Facts, Weather, Time, Money

• Ask Jeeves
  Question and answer database
• How stuff works
• Time and date.com
  times around the world
• Weather
  via ABC News online

Directories

• Telstra White Pages
• Yellow Pages Australia

Biography

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
  Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
• Biographical Dictionary
• International Who's Who
  Provides biographical information on over 20,000 international heads of state, religious and political leaders, and eminent people from business, finance, technology,and the arts.

Miscellaneous

• Gray's Anatomy
• King James Bible
• Historical speeches and documents
• Periodical abbreviation services
  Find out the full title of a periodical from its abbreviation

Other collections of reference tools

• Project Bartleby
  Classic reference works
• Info please
  Online dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac and reference