CREDO Reference - Over 3 million full text entries from over 490 reference books covering many different subject areas, including Art, Business, Geography, History, etc. This resource is available to Blinn College students, faculty & staff only. List of all available titles
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Gale
Virtual Reference Library
- The subject encyclopedias accessible through the Gale Virtual
Reference Library include
the Encyclopedia of Bioethics,
the Encyclopedia of Religion,the Encyclopedia of
Sociology, the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology,
and many more. This resource is available to Blinn College
students, faculty & staff only. |
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General Encyclopedias |
Encyclopedia.com Search through more than 100 sources, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauri, with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, word origins and abbreviations.
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian Detailed index to resources at the Smithsonian Institute.
The
1911 Classic Encyclopedia
is based on what many consider to be the best encyclopedia ever
written: the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, first published in 1911. Many of the
entries were written by the most famous people of the age. It
was considered to represent the sum of human knowledge at the
beginning of the 20th Century.
Wikipedia:
The Free Encyclopedia A multilingual project to create a
complete and accurate free content encyclopedia. Search by keyword
or select from one the topic lists available.
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Subject Encyclopedias |
Encyclopedia
of Psychology A carefully selected database of links to
original information generated by respected researchers and
practitioners in various fields of psychology. Keyword search,
or select from categories such as: career, environment-behavior
relationships, organizations, paradigms and theories, people
and history, and underlying reductionist machinery.
Handbook
of Texas Online A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas
history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State
Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.
Search by keyword or select from the master browse list of article
titles.
The
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Search by keyword or
select from the index to view articles, which include original
contributions by philosophers, adaptations of material written
by the editors for classroom purposes, and adaptations from
public domain sources.
MedlinePlus:
A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia Includes over 4,000
articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.
It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs
and illustrations.
The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference
work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research
Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information
(CSLI) at Stanford University.
Most free Internet encyclopedias
contain brief articles. If you are in the library, you can find
longer articles in printed encyclopedias. Go to the 031 call number
range in the reference section for general encyclopedias, such
as World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica. The library also has
subject encyclopedias providing in-depth information on many topics throughout the reference section.
Ask a librarian to help you find one that will cover your topic.
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