SJSU Research Guides: Online Reference Sources: Encyclopedias

General Encyclopedias

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 This link opens in a new window
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.
Scholarpedia This link opens in a new window
A peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written by scholars from around the world and focusing on Scholarpedia covers computational neuroscience, computational intelligence, dynamical systems, astrophysics and physics.

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.