Research Guides: English: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Literature Resource Center
Up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Oxford Reference
Reference books by Oxford University Press, including the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The largest and most comprehensive English dictionary. Provides a history of most words through examples of usage in written works of literature. Print version available in Clemens Oversize PE1625 .O87 1989
Oxford Handbooks
Brings together the world’s leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. We have access to the history and religion handbooks, along with select titles from other disciplines.

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