Encyclopedias & more

Description: AccessScience provides online and fully searchable science reference materials. The database includes all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Vendor: McGraw-Hill

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Description: Encyclopaedia Judaica includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. It also includes more than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations and other visuals concisely illustrate key textual elements, and among other features making this scholarly work accessible, are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research.

Date Coverage: Biblical Times to date
Vendor: Gale

Description: General interest encyclopedia. Updated annually.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Searchable collection of E-book reference titles that includes encyclopedias, almanacs, handbooks, dictionaries, directories, and and specialized reference sources.

Vendor: Gale

Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.

Creator: The State Library of North Carolina

Description: A cross-searchable collection of online reference books that offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and global history and culture.

Vendor: ME Sharpe, Inc.