SJSU Research Guides: Online Reference Sources: Encyclopedias

Online Resources

Encyclopaedia Britannica (SJSU Students and Faculty Only)
Full text of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica; additional articles and images not available in the print set); Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus; over 130,000 links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Oxford Reference
The Oxford Reference Online Premium contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University press. It also contains a range of key titles from the acclaimed oxford Companion Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

World Book Online Reference Center
The World Book Online Reference Center (now called World Book Student), includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.

Find Subject-Specific Encyclopedias

The King Library has hundreds of encyclopedias on specific subjects, such as biology, history, religion, and more. Using the OneSearch search box below, try a search on your subject AND encyclopedias. For example, biology AND encyclopedias. Many of these encyclopedias are available as ebooks that you can read on your computer.