Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference collection:
Search selected dictionaries and encyclopedias from Oxford University Press:
Examples:
Enter a search term in the box below to search selected dictionaries and encyclopedias from Gale:
