Databases
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowAuthoritative guide to reliable peer-reviewed resources and scholarship in African Studies, Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Environmental Studies, 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.
- 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.
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new windowOnline music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowA suite of four comprehensive art encyclopedias. Useful for scholarly overviews and excellent bibliographies.
- 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.
