Onondaga County Public Library Online Databases

Encyclopedias

Credo Reference
Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) is a digital reference library featuring content from high-quality reference books in a broad range of subjects. Search all books simultaneously, or browse individual titles.

EBSCOhost Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

World Book Online Reference Center
More than 25,000 encyclopedia articles plus media clips, a dictionary, an atlas, news headlines, Today in History event list, and a Spanish encyclopedia.

African American History and Culture [link opens new window]
An encyclopedia covering more than 500 years of African-American history.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searchable full-text reference titles in business, history, law, literature, medicine, and science.

CountryReports.org
Quick facts about countries, statistics, cultural information, current events, teacher guides, related web links and lots more.

FirstSearch World Almanac
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.

McGraw-Hill AccessScience
Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. Find RSS feeds, Flash® animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos, weekly Q&A and biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists. Content is contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners.

Milestone Documents in American History
Online, searchable, full text content of the 4-volume reference title, Milestone Documents in American History. It combines 134 full-text primary source documents  covering the time period 1763 to 2003 with expert analysis and commentary.