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DMIN RESEARCH GUIDE
Start your research by scanning a reference book to generate ideas about how to narrow or search for your topic.
You'll find keywords and related topics for your search strategy. You might even create an initial outline.
Reference articles usually offer additional resources in a bibliography you can use to track down more info.
Use the links below to access these reference databases.
Please note that databases outside of OCLS may require you to create an account to view information.
- Credo Reference (Infobase) This link opens in a new windowCredo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
- Gale eBooks (Gale/Cengage) This link opens in a new windowA database of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The ebooks are trusted, authoritative, and fully searchable online.
- HathiTrust Digital Library (Global Public Domain only) This link opens in a new windowThe HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. You can search and access fully viewable materials in HathiTrust, and download materials where there are no third-party restrictions (~26% of the collection is in the public domain).
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowA core foundation of 135+ academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content.
- Project GutennbergA database of over 40,000 electronic books and texts, including historically important documents and classic authors such as Shakespeare and Dickens. Offers editions for on-screen reading or download.
