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eReference

 
-Reference E-books-
(Off campus access requires GCNet username and password)
 
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online (and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus) offers all of the articles in the print sets, plus maps, photos, illustrations, videos, multimedia clips, and Yearbooks dating back to 1993.
 
• Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia is the full online version of the popular general encyclopedia.
 
• CQ Researcher is an online global current events reference series.  Articles are well constructed and extensive.
 
• Gale Virtual Reference is a collection of subject encyclopedias and other general e-books. 
 
• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online gives you access to all 8 volumes of the print edition from one site.
 
 
-General-
 
• Virtual Reference Shelf contains hundreds of links to reference resources such as almanacs, calculators and conversion tools, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, statistics and quotations.  Maintained by the Library of Congress.
 
• Bartleby's Reference links you to encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and language usage resources.
 
• refdesk.com is a large collection of links to ready reference resources online.  You can either browse or search the collection of links.
 
 • Librarians' Internet Index is a collection of useful websites that are selected, compiled, and described by a team of librarians.  You can search or browse the collection.
 
• Crash Course in Copyright provides useful information on copyright, including fair use, distance learning, and a tutorial.
 
 
-Databases-
 
• Google Scholar allows you to do keyword searches for scholarly publications, including: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles.
 
• Directory of Open Access Journals links you to free scholarly journals online.  You can browse by subject or search for journals by keyword in the title.
 
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations gives you access to electronic versions of graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations from over 75 universities, worldwide.
 
• eScholarship Repository links you to free scholarly journals submitted by University of California faculty.
 
• Internet Archive was developed as a free online library.  It now includes texts, audio, moving images, and software (as well as archived web pages) in its collection.
 
• Science.gov searches through federal US databases and official websites, offering authoritative government science information, including research and development results.
 
• Voice of the Shuttle is a database that serves content dynamically on the Web on many different subjects, especially the humanities.  Sponsored by University of California at Santa Barbara.
 
 
-Dictionaries-
 
• Dictionary.com is a free multi-source dictionary, which means that definitions are supplied from a variety of online dictionaries.
 
• Visual Dictionary Online connects words with images; searchable by keywords and browsable by categories, such as mammals, astronomy, sports, and music.
 
• Online Etymology Dictionary is an online dictionary of word origins, browsable alphabetically an searchable by keyword or phrase.
 
 
-Primary Documents-
 
• North Carolina ECHO links you to the special collections of NC libraries, museums, and archives.
 
• American Memory, by the Library of Congress is an extensive collection of primary source documents.  You can either browse a collection or search them all at the same time.
 
 
-Statistics-
 
• FedStats links you to US federal government agencies which collect statistics, without having to know which agency provides a particular statistic.
 
• CIA World Factbook provides vital statistics on countries around the world.  The entire book is available for download, or you can browse the book by country.
 
• USA.gov is the official online hub for the federal US government.