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REFERENCE DATABASES

 
 
READY "QUICK" REFERENCE
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
Provides access to 3 encyclopedias, including the most up-to-date Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, an updated world atlas, and various research tools.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE PREMIUM
Top-quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology! Combines the rich and scholarly resources offered by acclaimed titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative, in-depth coverage of the full subject spectrum. Over 1 million entries across 25 subjects.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS XREFERPLUS
The world's largest online ready reference online service, offering access to approximately 200 "peer reviewed" reference books from 49 of the world's leading publishers in a broad range of subjects. Features "Concept Maps", visual maps that display how search terms and topics in XREFERPLUS are interconnected.
OTHER REFERENCE DATABASES
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS CQ RESEARCHER ONLINE
Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. Each "single topic" issue provides bibliographies you can use to take you further in your research.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS DAILY LIFE ONLINE
Daily Life Through History Provides images, primary source materials, and research that gives a historical examination of people and cultures in the past. Also includes World Cultures Today, that focuses on current customs and cultures of peoples of the world.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS LITERATURE ONLINE (LION): ULTIMATE ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM AND REFERENCE LIBRARY
Over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English and over 120 specialist full-text journals. It is the world’s largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. This makes "the book" always available. Includes ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) that lists all scholarly articles, books and reviews, from 1920 to the present, concerning English language and literature.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS SCRIBNER'S WRITER SERIES
"Long the gold standard for literary criticism". Includes over 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from thirteen acclaimed print sets. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS NEWSBANK (AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS)
Includes access to the Oklahoman and the Tulsa World.

Provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers - all in one easy-to-search database.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COLLEGE SOURCE
Approximately 32,000 College Catalogs In Full Cover-To Cover, Original Page Format With 2-Year, 4-Year, Graduate, Professional And International Schools.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS SIRS DISCOVERER ON THE WEB
Designed with the young researcher in mind. An interactive tool that strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Especially valuable for teacher education students.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS FUNK & WAGNALL'S NEW WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA
This encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Contains images, brief biographies and full-text information in a variety of subjects.