Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language	Free online version at Bartleby.com, with 90,000 entries featuring 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. Global Internet Access
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online	Contains the complete text of the latest edition of America's oldest general encyclopedia, containing 45,000 articles written by 6,500 contributors--a 25,000,000-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial staff. UM authorized access only
Oxford English Dictionary, New edition	New web version of the most complete and authoritative dictionary of the English language. Contains all the second edition entries, which are gradually being supplemented with new revised entries as the third edition is created. UM authorized access only
Oxford Reference Online	Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of over 125 dictionaries and thesauri, language reference, quotation, and subject-specific reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and science. UM authorized access only
Roget's Thesauri	Combined access to Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1922 ed.) and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1995). Provides brief definitions of words, with lists of other words with similar meanings (synonyms) and opposite meanings (antonyms), illustrated by over 2,200 quotations from classic and modern authors. Open Internet access

Indexes to articles with full text

JSTOR	Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from inception of journal to 3-5 years from present. UM authorized access only
Lexis/Nexis Academic	Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines, from 1980-present. UM authorized access only
Proquest	Indexes over 2,300 journals and magazines covering all fields and topics, academic and popular, beginning as early as 1971, as well as major newspapers from their inception to the 1980s or later. Provides full text for articles as early as 1987 from over 1,400 of these journals and magazines. UM authorized access only

Publishing Information

Global Books in Print	Combines Bowker's Books In Print, Words on Cassette, and Complete Video Directory (titles available in U.S. & Canada) with Whitaker's British Books In Print (titles available in U.K.). Includes reviews, annotations, cover images, and publisher info. UM authorized access only
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory	Provides bibliographic and access information for over 240,000 periodical publications, including popular and trade magazines, scholarly journals, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, and electronic serials published throughout the world. UM authorized access only

Other Reference Sources

Biography Resource Center	A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes the Complete Marquis Who's Who, plus thousands of full text articles. UM authorized access only
Citation and Style Guides	A collection of citation and style guides (MLA, APA, Turabian, and others) including formats for electronic resources. Publicly available.
Gale/InfoTrac	Access to 32 databases from Thomson Gale,including Associations Unlimited, Biography Resource Center, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and The Times Digital Archive. UM authorized access only
World Almanac	Combines all the general facts, brief profiles and data included in Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the World Alamanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids. Global Internet access
WorldCat	Over 50 million citations to books, periodicals, sound recordings, films, musical scores, archival materials, and much more, representing holdings of most libraries in North America and many in Europe. UM authorized users only