Encyclopedias and Handbooks (Electronic Reference Sources)

An extensive collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference sources covering a broad range of humanities, social science, science, and multidisciplinary areas.

A fully searchable database of electronic books including more than 25 encyclopedias in information science, computer science, communication, and related areas.

Includes a suite of encyclopedias on literature and authors.

A fully searchable library including more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose as well as encyclopedias and other reference tools.

A searchable full-text collection of electronic books across all academic disciplines. A searchable full-text collection of electronic books across all academic disciplines. Includes an extensive collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference sources.

A large collection of authoritative encyclopedias in a broad range of fields including multidisciplinary areas such as anthropology, environment, health, and psychology. The main focus is the social sciences.

Full-text access to dictionary and encyclopedia entries, book chapters, full books, journal articles, data sets, and more.

Subjects covered include: business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences. Includes encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference tools.

Searchable versions of the Handbooks published by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Department of the Army. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political; economic; social; and national security systems and institutions; and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they're shaped by cultural factors.

A compilation of links to state Blue Books (almanacs or other compilations of statistics and information) and encyclopedias. Because not all states have a Blue Book or encyclopedia freely available online, "efforts have been made to direct users to resources that contain at least some of the information."

A compilation of state and regional digital projects and collaborations. From the Library of Congress.