English Language and Literature
"Reference" means...
...material we "refer" to for:
- background information
- getting started
- checking details
- definitions and facts
Encylopedia, handbook, dictionary, bibliography, companion and guide are all names given to reference material. This means that in the titles of reference sources, you'll find words like these, which indicate the nature of the contents.
Comprehensive, online reference sources often just use the word reference - as in the databases below.
Some Great Places to Start!
GENERAL REFERENCE SOURCES
Canadian Reference Centre (Ebsco Host) "Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers & newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K.) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 82,968 full text biographies and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Provides full text information for over 150 Canadian periodicals and over 400 international periodicals."
Credo Reference Credo Reference (Formerly XreferPlus) is an online reference library comprised of 453 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, etc. Click here to view a list of all reference titles included in Credo Reference.
Oxford English Dictionary An unsurpassed guide for researchers in a any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reference "The premium collection enhances the 100+ books in the core collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford companions series plus the Oxford dictionary of quotations. This collection is updated regularly with new titles, new editions, new entries, illustrations, weblinks and bibliographies."
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Adam Smyth (Editor)ISBN: 9780198846239Publication Date: 2024-01-26The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest research in one of the most exciting areas of early modern studies. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume considers the production, reception, circulation, consumption, destruction, loss, modification, recycling, and conservation of books from different disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter discusses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, as well as offering critical insights on how we talk about the history of the book. On finishing the Handbook, the reader will not only know much more about the early modern book, but will also have a strong sense of how and why the book as an object has been studied, and the scope for the development of the field.
The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.
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