This guide offers some useful starting places and strategies for your research. Don't hesitate to contact me for help navigating these resources or finding, evaluating, or citing sources for your research topics. I'm happy to work with you on any aspect of the research process!
Specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, companions, and other reference works can be good starting places for getting an overview of a topic, definitions of key terms, vocabulary for searching, and suggestions for further reading. The following databases allow you to search across multiple reference works at once.
Oxford Bibliographies are research guides in a variety of subject areas. Combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource directs researchers to top scholarship across a wide variety of topics.
An interdisciplinary research tool that allows you to search over 300 reference works simultaneously, including limiting to audio or visual materials.
Search across more than 100 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works.
You can find the following print books in the Reference section on the second floor of Clapp Library. Ask someone at the Service Desk, if you need help finding anything!