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Reference sources such as subject specific encyclopedias or dictionaries can be great places to start your research. These sources can help you identify or narrow a topic, provide reliable background information in order to gain a general overview of a topic, and often times these sources can provide you with a list of books or articles for starting your research.
- Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window
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Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. - Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowOnline access to a collection of reference books and encyclopedias in many subject areas.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowFully indexed, cross-searchable database of dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences published by Oxford University Press.
- Literature Resource Center (Gale Literature) This link opens in a new windowProvides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Also contains Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring definitions of literary terms.
