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Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. This collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information.  The rich combination of Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research--all from one database.

The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
 
OED Online offers:
* Unprecedented access to the 20-volume Second Edition and 3 Additions series volumes
* Quarterly updates comprising at least 2,500 new and revised words
* Extensive search options – everything from simple word and proximity searching to Boolean and phonetic searching across one or more fields in the Dictionary.
* Expanded coverage of world English, and terminology from specialist areas such as the arts, science, medicine, history, and the social sciences.

Book Index with Reviews™ (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. Fiction and non-fiction book titles are included in the database, in all genres, to help you locate books to read for fun, for information, or for research. BIR contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.