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Encyclopedias: Search returned 22 titles.

ABC-CLIO eBooks Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. A browsable collection of electronic reference works in all academic subjects. The site includes encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works. Each individual title is searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

American National Biography (ANB) Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. This searchable database contains information on more than American 17,400 men and women. Each entry contains a bibliography for further research and some have photos. Subject area(s): General Subjects.

Biography Resource Center from Gale Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, full-text database of biographies. Search for current and historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities.

Columbia Gazetteer Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Comprehensive and searchable encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Entries include demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

EBSCO Animals Searchable online encyclopedia of animals. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The searchable full-text version of the encyclopedia contains more than 72,000 articles and over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. Also included is an Internet directory with 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Subject area(s): General Subjects.

Encyclopedia of Islam Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Browsable, searchable online version of the entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition. From Brill Online. Subject area(s): Humanities.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable reference work on the biological sciences. Topics include biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, and science and society. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is a searchable and browsable site that brings together over 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. From Brill Online. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Social Sciences.

Encyclopedia of the Quran Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. From Brill Online. Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of encyclopedias and dictionaries in many subjects including education, environment, history, law, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Cross search Gale Virtual Reference and Expanded Academic ASAP.

Grove Dictionary of Art Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Click on “enter here” on the top right side of the home page. A searchable dictionary of articles with external image links covering all aspects of the visual arts. Also includes a searchable index to the Bridgeman Art Library of online images. Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: Prehistory - present.

Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition on the Web contains the complete text of the encyclopedic reference work. The searchable database contains: biographies of composers, performers, and writers; articles on styles, terms, and genres of music; information about regions, countries, and cities; articles on instruments and their performance practice; articles on popular music and jazz; information on musical concepts and notation. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.

Handbook of Psychology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The searachable, online version of Wiley's twelve-volume reference work includes sections on research methods, personality and social psychology, educational psychology, health psychology, and many others. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Handbooks in Economics Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable series of reference sources on various branches of economics. Each handbook provides a survey of the current state of that branch prepared by leading specialists in the field. Subject area(s): Social Sciences.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia features over 27,000 pages and 800 articles on chemistry and related fields; this 27-volume encyclopedia includes: CAS registry numbers, over 5,000 photos, charts, graphs, figures and tables, in-depth up to-date information on regulations, patents and licensing. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The searchable database provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from classical antiquity to the present. Subjects include novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: Antiquity-present.

Merck Index Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. An encyclopedia of chemicals and drugs. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 13th Edition

Oxford Art Online Available to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable online reference work. Includes the following titles: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Subject area(s): Art and Art History.

Oxford Reference Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Large, searchable database of reference sources including English language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotation sources, and encyclopedias. Subjects include art and architecture, environmental science, literature, history, food and drink, law, maps, medicine, mythology, medicine, politics, religion, and science. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work, international in scope and coverage, encompassing all the disciplines and current practice of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering around the world. Its 1000 major articles by 3,000 leaders from research and industrial organizations are well-illustrated with charts and figures and extensive bibliographies. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

XreferPlus Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable and browsable collection of online reference materials including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and several subject-specific titles. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

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