Research starter
This list includes databases in which you can begin many research topics. It includes databases catering to all levels of user, not just undergraduates. Content of these databases can include reference sources like encyclopedias or dictionaries; articles that give an overview of a topic, issue, controversy, or recent event; or that provide broad coverage to assist in narrowing or refining a research topic. After you have used these databases for background research on your topic, you can move on to more subject-specific databases.
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| Opposing Viewpoints In Context from Gale |
  Opposing Viewpoint Resource Center from GaleOpposing Viewpoints offers over 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays on controversial topics and current events, plus thousands of topic overviews, primary source documents, biographies of social activists, court case overviews, related full-text periodical articles, statistical tables, and multimedia content. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000736 |
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| Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present from Cambridge |
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the PresentOrlando indexes citations and full-text biographical and critical material for over 800 British women writers, including literary, social, and historical materials. Early medieval-present. |
May 20, 2012 | e1001228 |
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| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyThe Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. Limited to simultaneous user. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000265 |
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| Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World from Oxford Reference |
  Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World from Oxford ReferenceSearch or browse over 2500 entries on almost one thousand years, from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to the death of Marcus Aurelius in AD 180, this accessible and wide-ranging reference work draws on the groundbreaking Oxford Classical Dictionary to present more than 2,500 entries on the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The dictionary covers key aspects of ancient Greek and Roman life and literature, such as science, social structure, philosophy, and religion, and contains comprehensive articles on central figures, both real and mythological, from Achilles to Zeno. References are linked via Get VText. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000118 |
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| Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford English DictionaryBrowse or search over 600,000 words showing meanings, history, and pronunciations from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books. You can also explore a timeline of when words entered the English language and the many works that have act as sources for the OED. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000129 |
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| Oxford Guide to Countries of the World |
Oxford Guide to Countries of the WorldOrganized alphabetically, each entry offers a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues. For each country there is a map and a quick-reference fact box containing data and statistics including languages, population, GDP, capital city, life expectancy, and more. References are linked via Get VText. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000118 |
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| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Oxford ReferenceOxford Reference Online provides full-text articles from fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. You can search across the entire collection, subject collections, or individual works. References are linked via Get VText. |
Sep 13, 2010 | e1000118 |
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