General Reference
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Databases
Books In Print
Includes books in print and forthcoming from more than 44,000 North American publishers.
Credo Reference
100 reference titles.
CollegeSource Online
Features tens of thousands of college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.
Discovering Collection
Comprehensive coverage of core classroom subject areas geared for students from middle school to high school.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Global Reference Center
Britannica's Global Reference Center is the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Resources include Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, Enciclopedia Juvenil, Encyclopædia Universalis,Britannica Online Japan, Britannica Online Korea, and the Britannica Pocket Encyclopedia (Chinese).
Junior Reference Collection
With thousands of biographies, topic overviews, plot summaries and primary sources, this is a one-stop database for in-depth coverage of middle grades curriculum subjects.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Access the content of more than 100 Oxford reference books with a single search.
Reference USA
Find businesses in the US and Canada based on sales volume, employee size, type of business, and location.
Student Resource Center Gold
With award-winning content based on national curriculum standards, this database covers the major subject areas and provides a premium selection of reference, thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
Who's Who
Marquis Who'sWho on the Web is a comprehensive, searchable, daily-updated database of over 1.4 million concisely and factually written biographies clearly presented under subject headings from 21 different Marquis Who'sWho print titles published since 1985, plus exclusive access to all of the Marquis Who Was Who in America with World Notables biographies since 1607.
Dictionaries
Oxford dictionary of English (ebook)
Consice Oxford English dictionary (ebook)
Visual English dictionary (ebook)
Oxford Reference Online
Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection including several dictionaries.
Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary
Webster's new encyclopedic dictionary
The Oxford American dictionary of current English
Bernstein's reverse dictionary
Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus
Visual dictionaries
Visual English dictionary (ebook)
DK illustrated Oxford dictionary
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica (academic edition online)
Funk & Wagnalls new world encyclopedia (e-resource)
More than 25,000 entries covering a variety of subject areas.
The American annual: an encyclopedia of current events
Global Reference Center
Britannica's Global Reference Center is the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Resources include Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, Enciclopedia Juvenil, Encyclopædia Universalis,Britannica Online Japan, Britannica Online Korea, and the Britannica Pocket Encyclopedia (Chinese).
Oxford Reference Online
Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection including several encyclopedias.
View a list of other encyclopedias and dictionaries in the library catalog
Atlases & Maps
All catalog subject headings that include "maps"
In order to finding particular maps at GFU libraries, follow these steps:
- Go to Foxtrax and select the "Subject" search
- Enter the term "maps" and the other term that you are looking for, such as "africa"
- Submit your search
Finding Reference Books
In order to limit your search to finding reference books at GFU libraries, follow these steps:
- Select Foxtrax's Advanced Search mode
- Enter your search term(s) in the search box
- Under "Limited to:" go to "Location" and select either Newberg Reference or Portland Reference
- Submit your search