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Music Encyclopedias
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Grove Music Online Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
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MGG online Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is a general German-language encyclopedia of music, and it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions
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RILM Music Encyclopedias RILM Music Encyclopedias is a full-text compilation of reference works and is a unique collection of 41 seminal encyclopedias published between 1775 and 2015. International in scope.
General eReference Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryHandbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias in a wide range of subject areas, including Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Sciences.
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Oxford ReferenceHundreds of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Oxford DictionariesAuthoritative and comprehensive English bilingual dictionaries online for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
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Oxford Digital Reference ShelfBrings together nearly 200 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Subject areas include: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Environmental Sciences, Economics, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Science.
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Oxford Research EncyclopediasDesigned to be an authoritative resource of reference content in a wide array of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and science.
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Sage KnowledgeDictionaries, encyclopedias, guides and handbooks from a range of social science fields.
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Very Short IntroductionsProvides concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. Subject categories include: Arts and humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science and mathematics, Social sciences.
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