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Contact YOUR Librarian:

Drew Alfgren
email: alfgren@umbc.edu
phone: 410-455-3608

Online Dictionary and Encyclopedias

• Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]

  Gale Virtual Reference Library offers online access to reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. UMBC titles cover biography, business, law, public health, economic history, and multicultural studies.

• Oxford Reference Online

  It brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional sources.

• Encyclopedia of the Cold War [ABC-Clio].
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.
• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
  available through Gale Virtual Reference Library under the Science tab

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 1982.
  Location: REF D114.D5
  
• Facts on File Yearbooks. 1941 - present.
  Location: REF D410.F3
  
• English Historical Documents. (c. 500 - 1914).
  Location: REF DA26.E55
  
• Sources in British Political History. 1975.
  Location: DA566.7.C66
  
• Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism. 1998.
  Location: REF DS805.M63
  
• Encyclopedia of American History. 2003.
  Location: REF E174.E53
  
• Historical statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present. 2006, v.1-5.
  Location: REF HA202.H57
  
• Historical Documents (U.S). 1972 - present.
  Location: REF E839.5.H57
  
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
  Location: REF Q141.D5