The Northwestern University libraries offer a wide variety of electronic ready reference tools to help you locate facts, statistics, definitions and more. Many of these resources are accessible via the Web. Most are restricted to members of the Northwestern University community with current valid NetIDs.
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 Britannica Online
Oxford English Dictionary Online
World Almanac
Cross-Searchable Resources
CREDO reference (Formerly Xreferplus)
Search hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources simultaneously.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online encyclopedias of business, education, history, medicine, religion and social science.
Oxford Reference Online
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. All fully indexed and cross-searchable.
Reference Universe
Searchable database of tables-of-contents and indexes from more than 2500 reference works and subject encyclopedias. No full-text available in this database. |
