| | AccessScience | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of the most recent edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as biographies of scientists and science and technology news. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the 35th edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary,
edited by Michael Reade and Bohdan Romaniuk (4 vols.; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005). Provides more than 837,000 definitions. You
can search for either the acronyms and abbreviations or the definitions. |
| Contains the full text of nine notable English-language dictionaries, including the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.), Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, and more.
You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas. |
| Contains the full text of over a dozen foreign-language dictionaries, including the Collins French Dictionary, Collins German Dictionary, Collins Italian Dictionary, Collins Latin Dictionary, Collins Spanish Dictionary, and more.
You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas. |
| Contains the full text of the 22nd edition of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (Real Academia Española, 2001). Over 200,000 definitions; also contains etymologies.
The Library has a print version of this dictionary in Reference at call number R 463 A16d22. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots Language, The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which provides information about words from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth century, and The Scottish National Dictionary (SND), which covers words in use from the eighteenth century through the present day. |
| Contains the full text of aMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (2003). |
| Contains the full text of the second edition of the OED and the 3 volume Additions Series as well as new and revised entries that will form part of the upcoming third edition (in progress). Search OED Online for word definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
The Library has the print version of the OED in Reference at call number R 423 O98m2. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (4th ed.), Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (2nd ed.), and the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (3rd ed.), plus additional tools and resources. |
| An evolving digital library of resources related to ancient Greece. The Perseus Digital Library contains more content than the CD-ROM listed above. In addition to Greek texts, there are also works by Latin and Renaissance authors. This Web version also contains more images and more reference tools (such as Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, and several lexica, dictionaries, and encyclopedias) and is updated more frequently. |
| Contains the full text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged, one of the finest descriptive dictionaries for the English language. Over 472,000 definitions.
The Library has several copies of the print version of this dictionary in Reference at call number R 423 W38n3, 1971. |
