Guides: Online Reference Resources: Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Resources

Britannica Library Suite This link opens in a new window
All content from the print Encyclopedia Britannica plus additional articles, videos, and multimedia clips. Britannica Online also contains primary source documents, World Data Analyst (statistics on the countries of the world), World Atlas, The Web's Best (a collection of websites), and full text journal and magazine articles. Login with your library barcode.
Britannica Online School Edition This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive encyclopedia meeting the reference needs of elementary through high school students, with separate interfaces for each level. Also includes multimedia, primary sources, magazine articles, and links to quality web resources.
Britannica Online Spanish Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Spanish encyclopedias for both the primary and high school levels. Includes articles, images, and videos.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Find quick facts and background information in over 600 reference sources. Then continue searching in the NOBLE catalog and other electronic resources right from the Credo search screen.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries, covering a variety of subject areas, for the research needs of school students.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.