Encyclopedias

African American History and Culture
Include biographies, timelines, events and topics, image gallery, maps and charts.  Learning Centers help students and researchers find new ways to explore the vast amount of content in this database.

CQ Researcher
Original research reports covering political, social, environment, education, technology, and health issues.

World News Digest
Covers events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60 years. Updated every week. Headline news stories from Reuters are updated every hour.

Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
A database, in e-book format, of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for research topics on the arts, biographies, education, the environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, the nation and the world, religion, science, and social science. 

Issues and Controversies
Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

Science Online
Includes thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.