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Online Encyclopedias and Reference Sources

Starting Points (Multi-Subject)

• Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online

Art

• Contemporary Fashion
• Grove Art Online
• Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas

Biography

• American National Biography
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
• Biography Resource Center
• Colin Powell: A Biography
• Other Biography Resources
• Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary
• From Polis to Empire--The Ancient World, c. 800 B.C. - A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
• Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
• Shapers of the Great Debate on Conservation: A Biographical Dictionary

Biology

• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Business

• Business Plans Handbook
• Encyclopedia of American Industries
• Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
• Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
• International Directory of Company Histories

Country Information

• Cities of the World
• Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia
• New Encyclopedia of Africa
• China Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the People's Republic
• Culture and Customs of Australia

Education

• College Blue Book
• Encyclopedia of Education
• Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans
• World of Learning
• The Greenwood Dictionary of Education
• Models of Proposal Planning & Writing

Environmental Studies

• Climate Change: In Context
• Environmental Encyclopedia
• Water: Science and Issues
• Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia

Film

• History of the American Cinema

Government

• Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

History

• American Decades
• American Decades Primary Sources
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
• Encyclopedia of European Social History
• Encyclopedia of India
• Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture
• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
• Encyclopedia of Russian History
• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
• The People's Chronology
• Witchcraft in America
• Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Europe, 1618-1900
• Encyclopedia of the Crusades
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century
• Historical Dictionary of the 1950s

Kinesiology and Sports

• Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise
• Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine

Literature

• Book Review Index Online
• Literature Resource Center
• MagillOnLiterature Plus
• Writers Directory
• Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
• Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources
• Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
• Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature
• Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion
• Multicultural Writers since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide
• The New Ayn Rand Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition
• Thematic Guide to British Poetry

Medicine and Health

• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
• Encyclopedia of Public Health
• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
• Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
• Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition
• Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
• Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z

Music

• Grove Music Online

Political Science

• Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Major Acts of Congress
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Encyclopedia of Privacy
• Encyclopedia of White-Collar Crime
  
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Reference Guide
• The Welfare Debate  

Popular Culture

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair

Psychology

• The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health
• Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Learning and Memory

Religion

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
• Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• New Catholic Encyclopedia

Science, General

• American Men and Women of Science
• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
• Science of Everyday Things
• Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
• Science and Technology in 20th-Century American Life

Sociology

• Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Encyclopedia of Population
• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture Society History
• Encyclopedia of Sociology
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
• Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
• Encyclopedia of Rape

Women and Gender Studies

• Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion

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