Pick a Topic and Find a Background Source

Britannica Online Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, and an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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Online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
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Offers over 600,000 biographies spanning history and geography with new and/or updated biographies added annually.
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Offers coverage of virtually every academic, scholarly, and professional discipline and provides access to databases and ebooks for all kinds of research.

Research is a Conversation

OkStateLibrary (2016, May 18). Inform your thinking: Episode 1 - Research is a conversation [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmbO3JX5xvU.

Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

OkStateLibrary (2016, June 27). Inform your thinking: Episode 4 - It's all about the questions [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDsAjP3tNzk&t=3s.

Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.