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Oxford Reference Online Premium is a comprehensive collection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias covering a variety of fields from the Oxford University Press. It also includes English and bilingual dictionaries.

Virtual Reference Library features links to reliable information on the Internet with special focus on Canadian and Ontario information.

Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary that covers the development of the English language. It includes detailed entries for words from 1150 CE to the present.

Book Review Digest (Ebscohost) provides review excerpts and book summaries from 1983 to present for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages.

Novelist (Ebscohost) provides access to summaries, reviews, author information, discussion guides, and recommendation lists for fiction titles.

Novelist K - 8 (Ebscohost) includes summaries, reviews, author information, discussion guides, and recommendation lists for young fiction readers.

Cabell's Directories provides publishing details for selected Education journals including topics covered, submission guidelines, acceptance rates and details about the review process.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Knowledge Ontario) includes subject-specific encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online provides biographies of those who died between the years 1000 and 1930.

Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica) features the complete content of the print version, in both official languages, as well as the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (English only) plus interactive and multi-media resources.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reference source that features articles written by expects.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EbscoHost) provides entries covering a broad variety of subjects.

The Serials Directory (EbscoHost) contains bibliographic and pricing information for journals, newspapers, and magazines.

MLA Directory of Periodicals (Proquest)  provides information on journals and series covered in the MLA International Bibliography database.