Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Reference Resources  

Credo Reference offers hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and specialized reference works. A good place to begin investigating a new topic.

Searchable, online reference encyclopedias and dictionaries from Gale-Cengage.

This collection offers hundreds of language and subject reference works, and is particularly strong in the humanitites.

Thousands of articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works. Includes Grove Music, Oxford Music Online, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive record of the English language. In addition to meticulously detailed definitions, entries include full etymological histories for each term.

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Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is editable by any user.

This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.

Credo Reference carries a number of titles on quotations and speeches.