| | 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 full text of the Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, edited by Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan.
Note: the online version of the Encyclopedia is not yet complete; additional entries will be posted throughout 2007. The first edition of this set, The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality is also available both online and in print (Little Library Reference R 306.7 I61). |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, edited by W. Edward Craighead and Charles Nemeroff (3rd ed.; 4 vols.; New York: Wiley, 2001).
Note: Only one person may view this NetLibrary e-book at any one time. If you are unable to access the e-book because someone else is using it, please wait a few minutes and try again.
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| | Credo Reference | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library. |
| Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. |
| Contains the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., with updates), with over over 29,000 articles about people, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music. Also provides links to sound files, image files, and related Web sites and includes The Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., the Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Updated monthly. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory. |
| Contains the fully-searchable text of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Horowitz (6 vols; Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005), which covers major concepts and ideas over time and across cultures.
Note: The Library has print versions of the new edition and the first edition in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The 1973-1974 edition, edited by Philip P. Wiener, is also available online from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. |
| | Oxford Art Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of -- and updates to -- Grove's Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (34 vols.; 1996- ), with over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Also contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and over 5,000 images. Updated regularly. |
| 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. |
| | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
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Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. |
| (1995 to present) An online-only, dynamic encyclopedia covering 35 subject areas, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, history of ideas, logic, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and social philosophy.
The Davidson College Library is a member of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Association (SEPIA) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and has helped to fund the encyclopedia. |
