Electronic Encyclopedias
- Encyclopaedia Britannica OnlineIncludes growing set of research tools: Gateway to the Classics ; Quotable Quotes; Timelines and more.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd editionComprehensive, scholarly background information on topics in the social and behavioral sciences with international scope.
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Foreign language dictionaries can be found in the Daley Library's Reference Collection and in the general stacks under the following call numbers shown in this guide:
Please ask at the Reference Desk in the IDEA Commons if you need help locating these.
Electronic Reference Collections
- Credo ReferenceProvides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
- Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks offers a broad cross-curricular collection of non-fiction titles, supporting science, geography, history, language arts, business and other subjects.
- Oxford Reference OnlineSpecialty encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries; emphasis on American Literature and Western Civilization.
- SAGE Reference E-BooksGrowing collection of topic and subject encyclopedias online. Note: To search only UIC subscribed titles, please click the Available to me button on the right.
Electronic Dictionaries and Thesauri
- Oxford English DictionaryDefinitive record of the meaning, history and evolution of English words over the last 1500 years.
