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Reference Sources

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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Online edition of accepted authority and guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words in the English language. Provides comprehensive etymological analysis and listing of variant spellings while tracing the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations.

Provides citations to short stories written in or translated into English published in short story collections as well as periodicals each year - indexed by Author, Title, and Subject Area.

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Short Story Index (1984-current) Call number: Z5917.S5 C62

Short Story Index Supplement (1950-1983) Call Number: Z5917.S5 C6 Suppl.

Short Story Index, Collections Indexed 1900-1978 Call Number: Z5917.S5 S56

A great reference sources for author biographies, criticism, and title overviews for the genres of short & long fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Search for a specific work or author, or browse through available reference sources.

Salem Literature This link opens in a new window
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Provides complete content of printed reference sets in literature including the Critical Survey of Long Fiction.

Reference Databases

These reference databases allow you to simultaneously search hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books.

Gale E-Books This link opens in a new window
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Collection of ebook reference works in all disciplines including multivolume encyclopedias, biographical directories, business plan handbooks, consumer health references, dictionaries, etc.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Over 400 reference titles from over 70 publishers covering every major subject. Seamless searching of Credo Reference sources, the WSU Libraries Catalog, and other Libraries subscribed databases.
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Websites

Directory of Old English Project
From the University of Toronto. Two research tools are available: a variant phrase search and a list of texts cited in the dictionary.
Luminarium
A online encyclopedia covering Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration-studies.
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. From Brigham Young University.