Databases
- Bloomsbury Cultural History This link opens in a new windowAn authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.
- Cambridge Histories This link opens in a new windowHistorical overviews and contextual essays from leading scholars on topics across a broad range of time periods and geographies. Chapters can be downloaded as PDFs and are printable.
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Authoritative guide to reliable peer-reviewed resources and scholarship in African Studies, Buddhism, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, and Political Science. Bibliographies are selectively curated and annotated by expert academics and offer high-level overviews that provide non-experts with a point of entry into unfamiliar areas of study.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowDesigned to be an authoritative resource of reference content in a wide array of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and science.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowHundreds of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by ISBN: 9780195148909Publication Date: 2008-01-23Entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the EgyptianUprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages by Call Number: Main Library & Main Reference D114 .D5 1982ISBN: 0684167603Publication Date: 1982-11-01
Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages by Call Number: Main Reference CB351 .B75513 2017ISBN: 9789004293151Publication Date: 2016-12-12
Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance by Call Number: Main Reserve HQ1148 .W67 2007ISBN: 9781851097722Publication Date: 2007-03-01Covers the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700 in England, France, and Italy.
