Ebook guides to writers, composers, philosophers, genres, and literary fields with context and analysis.

Directory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings; searchable by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, revenue, number of employees.

Cross-searchable library of encyclopedias and specialized reference books.

General interest database of journals, reference books, photos and videos. Coverage of business, health, education, fitness, sports, leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues.

Subject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.

Cross-searchable collection of dictionaries, encyclopedia, and reference books across all subjects, including the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and bilingual dictionaries.

Index to articles published in a wide range of journals from 1983 to the present (updated daily).

Provides biographical information for thousands of living scientists, including professional and career information; awards; field of specialty; current position; and other details for each.

Short biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history (deceased) written by prominent scholars.

This Directory provides brief biographical information, including party affiliation, for all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the Continental Congress to the pr...

Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

Searchable database of biographies and obituaries from the Current Biography Yearbook since 1940, supplemented by citations and commentary.

A bio-bibliographical database containing detailed information on writers of contemporary German literature.

Information on a large number of authors and literary works.

Also known as Who's Who, provides biographies of accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports.

Biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples.

Collection of articles, essays, images, reference works, and primary sources designed to support research in African American Studies.

Illustrated biographies of people who were noteworthy or influential in shaping Britain's past. No living subjects are included. Each entry contains bibliographic information and other details.

Online encyclopedia of topics related to women and gender studies; covers geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and biographies, pre-history to the 2000s.

WLHBA consists of image files of historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society, mainly between 1860-1940. It is searchable by headline, subject, n...

Database of full text book reviews for fiction, nonfiction, humanities, social science and general science books for both children and adults from thousands of sources.

Reviews of significant current books and electronic media of interest to those in higher education.

Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.

Searchable database of Medieval Latin abbreviations.

Online encyclopedia of worldwide coverage of the origins, forms, practitioners, and effects of antisemitism, leading to the Holocaust through the present day.

Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.

Multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment, addressing the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions.

Online encyclopedia covers the main aspects of the Buddhist traditions, explained in original essays written by scholars.

Complete and unabridged online editions of four reference works in medieval studies.

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and related materials for preK-12 students. Includes selected magazines and journals, images, video, read-aloud vocabulary help, and teacher materials.

Encyclopedic dictionary of the Chinese language; includes newly popular entries and terms.

The Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese and English Dictionary is a compilation of Chinese ideographs and compound words, text names, person names, found primarily in the Confucian and Daoist classics.

Searchable online Yiddish-English dictionary, includes idioms, examples of usage, and dialect forms; with coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, Romance, and Germanic.

This source includes in depth analyses of countries prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department ...

The Diccionario de la lengua española (a.k.a. DRAE or Diccionario de la Real Academia Española) is the standard dictionary of Spanish (a.k.a. Castilian) edited and produced by the Royal Spanish Aca...

Audio clips, examples of use, and maps for regional American English.

Online dictionary of the vocabulary of the English language of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.), with references to the source texts.

This is a computer-generated tool for identifying synonyms and quasi-synonyms in the French language. Functioning like a thesaurus -- but lacking subject indexing and devoid of quotes that would su...

Current descriptions of communication theories in various disciplines. Relevant subsets of communication theory are covered including organizational, feminist, philosophical, linguistic, and media.

Comprehensive reference source that examines the early modern period in history (1450-1850 CE), with a geographic focus on Europe, including its relationship to the greater world.

Draws the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinx people. Over 900 articles on identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

Issues at the junction of law, religion, and state are covered for each country worldwide, as well as special territories and international organizations.

Online encyclopedia covers all areas of veterinarian and human parasitology; Includes definitions and in-depth essays on parasites of humans and animals written by specialists in the field.

Online encyclopedia of essays on Taiwan, covering history, society, culture, economy, politics, international relations, Indigenous studies, literature, gender studies, media studies, music, and art.

Encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages.

Online encyclopedia presents a survey of the cultural and political history between the German-speaking world and the Americas, covering key events over 400 years of transatlantic history.

Online dictionary of the modern French language, in French; I verb conjugations, feminine and plural forms, etymology, nuances of use, quotations, and more.

Comprehensive Chinese Word Dictionary has diachronic coverage of the Chinese language, and traces usage over three millennia from Chinese classic texts to modern slang.

Based on the OED, this thesaurus contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout the history of the language.

Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings is a free-access, Web-based resource developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison which complements the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandi...

Cross-searchable collection of etymological dictionaries reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European.

Infoplease.com contains reference sources from the Information Please Almanac product line. Included are TIME/Information Please Almanac, ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, A&E Entertainment A...

Online encyclopedia of the broad field of "media studies” which includes print journalism, radio, film, TV, photography, computing, mobile phones, and digital media.

Articles discussing history, current trends and future directions for topics in the behavioral and social sciences fields.

A scholarly, French-language site dealing with many aspects of the French language in the nineteenth century. Files include extracts from many nineteeth-century writings on the French language as w...

This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/...

This exhaustive collection of nearly 800 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and word lists gives access to hundreds of thousands of words, terms and expressions. The range of subjects cover...

A database of some 48,000 Old French words, namely the lemmata from the Tobler-Lommatzsch Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch. The latter is still in production, but by special arrangement this database in...

Peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. Includes both Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.

Online version of J.F. Niermeyer's concise dictionary of medieval Latin, with French, English and German translations for every entry of a Medieval Latin concept and searches on lemma and full text.

The online Collegiate Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. It includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as t...

An ongoing searchable location, concept, and dictionary file of close to 100 Middle High German texts with 682,000 textlines, 4.3 million words, 35,000 distinct words, and 16,000 distinct meanings....

A composite German-language dictionary, with a German-language help file, of Middle High German. It is based on the conversion to machine-readable form of the following scholarly printed sources: M...

Focuses on women's status starting in the 21st century. Topics include activism, arts, business, education, environment, government, health, media, religion, science, sports, sexualities, and more.

Online encyclopedia offers a survey of the history of Western thought and culture.

Historical dictionary of the English language; includes present-day meanings, history of individual words, and usage through quotations from classic literature, film, scripts, and other sources.

This free service contains more than 2.3 million words found in more than 490 online dictionaries. The list of dictionaries can be browsed by broad subject areas (including slang) or alphabetically...

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on African American Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on African Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on biblical studies combine aspects of an annotated bibliography and high-level encyclopedia, with core and foundational sources, and expert commentary.

A comprehensive reference tool offering authoritative research guides for Chinese studies, combining in-depth analysis of an annotated bibliography with the scope of an encyclopedia.

Frequently updated, authoritative research guides on topics in international law, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on Latin American Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Frequently updated, authoritative articles on topics in music, combine aspects of an annotated bibliography and encyclopedia, listing important and foundational sources, with expert commentary.

Frequently updated, authoritative research guides on topics in psychology, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

Bilingual Dictionary and language reference service for English to selected foreign languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish), including grammar guides, writing tools, and cultural information.

Online encyclopedia covers values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs in the U.S., whether expressed in everyday life or formal bodies of thought, from early days of settlement to the 21st century.

Online encyclopedia covers the social experience of Americans throughout history, from population movements, work, racial divides, women’s suffrage, voting, leisure, consumption patterns, and more.

Online encyclopedia explores the changing nature of science, medicine, and technology in the U.S.; key individuals, institutions, and organizations; concepts, practices, and processes behind changes.

Peer-reviewed articles and in-depth overviews of major areas of research in African history. Entries include audio, visual, and video materials, with links to digitized archives and primary sources.

Online encyclopedia with peer-reviewed articles and in-depth overviews of the major areas of research in international studies.

Authoritative reference handbook of facts and analysis on governmental and political makeup for over 200 countries and territories throughout the world, intergovernmental organizations, and UN agencies.

Online encyclopedia of religion worldwide, with coverage of theological and biblical studies. Includes contents from all volumes of the original German print edition and the English translation.

This is the online version of the Swedish Academy's authoritative and historically oriented(covering 800 CE to the present) dictionary of the Swedish language, Ordbok over svenska språket. It allow...

Comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin compiled on the basis of all literary and non-literary Latin texts surviving from antiquity (until AD 600); Not a bilingual Latin-English dictionary.

This is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version o...

Previously known as Vocabolario 1612, this is an online version of the first edition of the prestigious Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, a normative dictionary of the Italian language bas...

yourDictionary.com provides links to free online dictionaries, thesauri, and glossaries in English as well as more than 120 other languages. There is also a section containing many subject dictiona...

All That JAS is a categorized registry of 123 Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types of abbreviated publication titles (example: confere...

Contains ranking of graduate and professional schools from U.S. News and World Report. Also includes some articles on applying to graduate school, paying for graduate school, taking the GRE, career...

Ranks scholarly and technical journals based on their impact factor (how often the journal is cited), immediacy index (how quickly an article is cited), and other criteria. Updated annually.

Information and services for more than 184 countries.

Provides detailed information on serials published around the world. Covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly, and are free or subscription-based.

The Experts Database identifies the expertise of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff.

Listings of 19th century newspaper and periodicals from England.

The Wisconsin Blue Book is a comprehensive almanac of Wisconsin State Government. It includes biographies of people in state government, information on the various agencies of the state, and a grea...

Searchable reference resource on international non-profit organizations and associations worldwide, across all disciplines.

ArchiveGrid includes over three million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000...

Multidisciplinary index to the literature of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities on the Web of Science platform.

Database of bibliographic information about published books, ebooks, audio books, and videos, with search and browse options by genre, subject, series, audience, media mentions, awards, and more.

CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, dissertations from outside of the U.S., with content from Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

This German-language search engine of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB; German National Library) functions as a look-up equivalent to the Deutsche Nationalbibliographie (German national bibliog...

Provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, plus materials printed in English anywhere else.

Archive of quantitative data of research in the social and behavioral sciences with specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Database of incipits, or first words of a work, in Latin texts and manuscripts, dating from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

A source for assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Includes authors, publication information, subjects, book reviews, discussion guides, feature articles, and themed book lists.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources that provides "one-stop shopping" for academically-oriented digitized materials. OAIster provides access to the resources in nearly 900 collections w...

Index to more than 150,000 short stories from 1915 to 1983. Sources include periodicals and collections of short stories, with extensive subject indexing.

World's largest catalog of global library resources. FirstSearch interface has advanced searching options, displays all editions, and integrates UW interlibrary loan services.

Free version of WorldCat, the world's largest catalog of global library resources. Offers a basic search interface and resource details. Requires a personal account to see certain data and functions.

Guide to formatting electronic references in APA Style, adapted from the 6th edition Publication Manual of the APA. Outlines key elements for referencing electronic sources and provides examples.

Searchable online version of the Chicago Manual of Style. Provides quick answers to style, citation, and editing questions.