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Access Science is the electronic version of the 9th edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Each article contains web links to other resources and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources in Access Science are McGraw Hill Yearbooks (science research updates), Science News articles, and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technology Terms.

This database is a collection of 17,400 American biographies from throughout American History. ANB is the electronic version of the 24 volume print collection of American National Biography. It is updated quarterly with several hundred biographies and revisions added yearly. Each entry also provides links to related web resources and a bibliography.

Books In Print is an index of 5 million books and audiovisual materials. The entries contain basic bibliographic information, such as title, author, and publisher. Some of the entries have short synopsizes and reviews.

The Oxford DNB is a collection of over 50,000 illustrated biographies of prominent British figures. The Oxford DNB is an expanded version of the Victorian Dictionary of National Biography with revisions and the addition of 16,500 biographies.

Britannica Online is a general encyclopedia that contains basic information on a given topic. The articles are written by experts in their particular field. Additionally, it provides links to other articles and web resources.

Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Americana is a general encyclopedia, which is similar to Encyclopedia Britannica. The articles are from leading scholars in the field. There are also further reading sections.

Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Multimedia Encyclopedia is a popular encyclopedia written for a general audience. The multimedia features include interactive bibliographies, images, and web links to other resources.

Grove Art is an electronic version of The Dictionary of Art (the 34 volume print version is found in the reference collection) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Grove Art provides 45,000 articles with over 130,000 searchable images linked to museum and gallery websites.

Grove Music is an electronic version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (the 28 volume print version is found in the reference collection). Additionally, found in Grove Music is The Dictionary of Opera and The Dictionary of Jazz. Other features include 500 musical samples and over 3,000 links to related web resources.

The OED Online is the electronic version of the 1989 2nd edition of the dictionary (the 20 volume print version is found in the reference collection). The OED traces word usage and definitions through English quotations from a large collection of different sources. The online version is updated quarterly with 1,000 new entries and revisions.

This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. There is a wide range of titles that focus on art, history, law, religion, science, and the social sciences.