General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources | Book Reviews | Catalogs | Dictionaries and Thesauri--English Language | Dictionaries--Western European Languages | Directories, Fact Books, etc. | Dissertations | Encyclopedias | English Language--Reference | English Language--Usage | Quotation Dictionaries

Biographical Sources

• African American Biographical Database, Chadwyck-Healey
  
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie / Neue Deutsche Biographie Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. (unrestricted access)
  
• American National Biography, Oxford; updated quarterly
  
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Gale Group
  
• Biography Index, 1984-
  
• Contemporary Authors, Gale Group
  
• Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 2000
  
• Debrett's People of Today, 2002
  
• Dictionary of National Biography
  
• Dictionary of Political Biography, Oxford, 1998
  
• Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford, 1999
  
• Kings and Queens of Britain, Oxford, 2001
  
• The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography, 1999
  
• Marquis Who's Who on the Web
  
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Popes, Oxford, 1986
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford, 1997
  
• The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women, 1998
  
• Who's Who 2003, A & C Black
  
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge, 1999
  
• Who's Who in Christianity, Routledge, 1998
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge, 2001
  
• Who's Who in Opera, Oxford, 1998
  
• Who's Who in the Classical World, Oxford, 2000
  
• Who's Who in the New Testament, Routledge, 2002
  
• Who's Who in the Old Testament, Routledge, 2002
  
• Who's Who in the Roman World, Routledge, John Hazel, 2001
  
• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Oxford, 1999
  
• World Biographical Information System

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest, 1983-
  
• Book Review Index, 1965-
  
• International Bibliography of Book Reviews (IBR), 1985-
  
• New York Review of Books, 1963- (unrestricted access)
  Includes a searchable index of all articles from 1963 to the present and the full text of selected articles.
  
• New York Times Book Review, 1997- (unrestricted access)
  
• PCI Full Text, 1770-1995
  
• TLS Centenary Archives 1902-1990
  
• Web of Science Citation Indexes
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-
  • Science Citation Index, 1945-
  • Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956-

Note: Many subject-specific indexes also include book reviews.

Catalogs

• American Film Institute Catalog
  
• Archival Resources (includes nearly 30,000 finding aids)
  
• ArchivesUSA
  
• College Source Online
  
• English Short Title Catalog, ESTC
  
• Hand Press Books (early European printed books)
  
• Index of Christian Art
  
• LibWeb: Library Servers via WWW (unrestricted access)
  
• RLG Cultural Materials
  
• RLG Union Catalog
  
• SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
  
• WorldCat on FirstSearch

Dictionaries and Thesauri--English Language

• The American Heritage Concise Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin, 1994
  
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin, 2000 (unrestricted access)
  
• Bloomsbury Thesaurus, 1997
  
• Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, 2001
  
• Collins English Dictionary
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Oxford, 2001
  
• Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus
  
• Middle English Dictionary
  
• The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, Oxford, 1999
  
• The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English, Oxford, 1999
  
• Oxford Dictionary of English
  
• Oxford English Dictionary
  
• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, Oxford, 2001
  
• The Penguin English Dictionary, 2000
  
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Houghton Mifflin, 1995 (unrestricted access from Bartleby.com)
  
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Dictionaries-Western European Languages

French

• Business French Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing, 1995
  
• Collins French Dictionary
  
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French), Oxford, 1998
  
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English), Oxford, 1998
  
• Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française Eighth Edition, 1932-35, ARTFL
  
• Dictionnaries d'autrefois, ARTFL
  
• Oxford Business Frence Dictionary (English-French)
• Oxford Business Frence Dictionary (French-English)

German

• Business German Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing, 2001
  
• Collins German Dictionary
  
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German), Oxford, 1998.
  
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English), Oxford, 1998.
  
• Duden Abkürzungen, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Duden Familiennamen, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Duden Großes Fremdwörterbuch, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Duden Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Duden Szenesprache, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis,the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Duden Vornamen, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
• Oxford Duden German Dictionary, Oxford, 1999.
  
• PO NS Kompaktwörterbuch Deutsch - Englisch, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• PONS Kompaktwörterbuch Englisch - Deutsch, Duden, 2000. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.

Italian

• Collins Italian Dictionary
• The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English, Oxford, 2000
  
• The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian), Oxford, 2000

Portuguese

• Collins Portuguese Dictionary

Spanish

• Business Spanish Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing, 1998
  
• Collins Spanish Dictionary
  
• The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish), Oxford, 1998
  
• The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English), Oxford, 1998
  
• Dictionary of Spanish Law, Peter Collin Publishing, 1999
  
• Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)
• Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)
  

Directories, Fact Books, etc.

• Books in Print
  
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America Columbia University Press, 2000 (unrestricted access)
  
• A Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford, 1998
  
• A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford, 1996
  
• Facts on File, 1980-
  
• Libros en venta en América Latina y España
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, Oxford, 1998
  
• Scholarly Societies Project
  
• SybWorld Text, Palgrave Macmillan; maps, Myriad Editions, 2002.
  
• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
  
• World Almanac
  
• World Fact Book, CIA, 2001 (unrestricted access)
• World of Learning, Europa Publications
  
• Yearbook of International Organizations (To search, click on "International Organizations.")

Dissertations

• Center for Research Libraries Foreign Dissertation Database
  
• Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland, 1970-
  
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Encyclopedias

• Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 1996-1999. Part of Xipolis, the AAU/ARL German Resources Project.
  
• Columbia Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press, 2001 (unrestricted access from Bartleby.com)
  
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001
  
• Crystal Reference Encyclopedia, Quotations, Ltd., 2001
  
• Diderot's Encyclopédie
  
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  
• The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Helicon, 2001
  
• The Macmillan Encyclopedia, 2001
  
• Philip's Encyclopedia
  
• World Encyclopedia Oxford, 2002

English Language-Reference

• The American Heritage. Dictionary of Idioms, 1997
  
• The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford, 1997
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford, 1998
  
• Devil's Dictionary
  
• Dictionary of Eponyms, Manser, 1996
  
• Dictionary of First Names, Oxford
  
• A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, Blackwell, 1997
  
• A New Dictionary of Eponyms, Oxford, 1997
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
  
• Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, Oxford, 2000
  
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, Oxford, 1999
  
• The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary, 1991
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford, 1997
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford, 1998
  
• Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk, 1995

English Language-Usage

• American Heritage Book of English Usage Houghton Mifflin, 1996 (unrestricted access)
  
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 1997
  
• The Bloomsbury Good Word Guide, 1997
  
• Columbia Guide to Standard American Usage Columbia University Press, 1993 (unrestricted access)
• Concise Oxford Companion to The English Language, Oxford, 1998
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, Oxford, 2000
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, Oxford, 1998
  
• Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage, Oxford, 1999
  
• Rawson's Wicked Words, 1989
  

Quotation Dictionaries

• Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations, 1997
  
• Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations, 1997
  
• Collins Concise Dictionary of Quotations, 1998
  
• Columbia World of Quotations Columbia University Press, 1996 (unrestricted access)
  
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Oxford, 1998
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Oxford, 1999
  
• Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations, 1997
  
• Respectfully Quoted, Library of Congress, 1989
  
• Simpsons's Contemporary Quotations, Houghton Mifflin, 1988 (unrestricted access)