Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - Alphabetical
AccessEngineering (McGraw-Hill)
Over 300 reference books in 14 major areas of engineering including: Construction, Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Communications and Environmental Engineering.
Type: Dictionaries E-Books Encyclopedias
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Full text access to many essential nursing resources. Titles include: Handbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide, and Nursing Care Plans & Documentation.
Type: E-Books Guidelines
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Covers Canadian topics, people, places, and events, including full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, images, videos, audio files and websites.
Type: Articles Encyclopedias Full Text
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This new edition features 2,200 uniquely Canadian words and senses, 350 usage notes, 7,000 idiomatic expressions, 5,500 biographical entries, and over 5,600 place names.
Type: Dictionaries
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CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) - Academic Support Program
Provides environmental and occupational health and safety standards, legislation, articles and reports including: MSDS, CHEMINFO, and the Canadian Electrical Code (Part 1).
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Type: E-Books Standards & Codes
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Definitions of financial accounting, financial reporting, management accounting, direct and indirect taxation, corporate finance, and auditing, with examples of difficult concepts and feature entries on key topics.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, covering all periods of Western architectural history. Biographies range from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers. New entries include definitions of landscape terms, and biographies of modern architects.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Business and Management
This wide-ranging and authoritative dictionary contains 7,000 entries covering all areas of business and management, including marketing, organizational behaviour, business strategy, law, and taxation.
Type: Dictionaries
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This dictionary covers all aspects of economics including: international trade, economic theory, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, public finance, and environmental economics; with many entries on economic organizations and institutions from around the world.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Finance and Banking
Covers vocabulary used in banking, money markets, foreign exchanges, public and government finance, and private investment and borrowing. Coverage in all areas is wide and international.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Human Resource Management
Over 1,400 entries on human resource management, personnel, and industrial relations, covering technical terms, jargon, theories, and concepts in the HRM field.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
Contains approximately 2,000 entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including: movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools and galleries.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Modern Design
From Art Nouveau to Postmodernism, this dictionary covers the past 150 years of international design, with entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors and fashion.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Statistics
Over 2,000 entries on all aspects of statistics including terms used in computing, mathematics, operational research, and probability, as well as biographical information on over 200 key figures in the field, and coverage of statistical journals and societies.
Type: Dictionaries
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Complete encyclopedia with comprehensive articles, plus biographies, timelines, images, videos, world atlas, country snapshots, statistics and an online dictionary.
Type: Dictionaries Encyclopedias Statistics
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Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
This encyclopedia covers five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
A three-volume survey of more than 400 years of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States, presented through over 500 alphabetically arranged entries.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of Management
Includes essays on 350 topics written by academics and business professionals. Topics include: benchmarking, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, and supply chain management, among many others.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of Products & Industries
Provides information on various aspects of a product, its manufacturers, suppliers, immediate and adjacent industries and markets.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of World Biography
A multicultural encyclopedia with biographies of notable individuals from every part of the world.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Gale Interactive Human Anatomy
Human anatomy comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models.
Type: Encyclopedias Images
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
Access to encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources covering many subject areas.
Type: Dictionaries E-Books Encyclopedias
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General Reference Center Gold (Gale)
Access to a wide range of full-text titles, including magazines, encyclopedias, business journals, almanacs and news articles.
Type: Articles Full Text
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Handbook of International Financial Terms
Reflecting the development of global financial markets, this is a valuable companion for advanced students of finance, accounting, and business.
Type: Dictionaries Handbooks
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MyiLibrary
A large collection of e-books selected to support George Brown College’s courses and programs.
Type: E-Books
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Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia and image database covering visual arts and design from prehistory to the present (worldwide in scope but strongest in Western art).
Type: Dictionaries Encyclopedias Images
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Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Compiled by an international team of over 140 contributors, this work contains both biographical entries and a wide range of technical information on photography
Type: Dictionaries
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Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary
Written by a team of medical experts, this work covers all aspects of medical science and terminology.
Type: Dictionaries
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Oxford Dictionary of Art
A guide to the art of the Western world with definitions of terms and biographical entries of artists who worked in painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and modern media.
Type: Dictionaries
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Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
With entries on America’s leading painters, sculptors, photographers and contemporary installation artists as well as notable American institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles and movements.
Type: Dictionaries
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Dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference books online. A great resource for definitions, quick facts, quotations, maps, timelines and more.
Type: Dictionaries E-Books Encyclopedias Maps
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Psychologists and Their Theories for Students
In-depth coverage of major psychological theories and the people who developed them.
Type: Encyclopedias
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Travel42 (formerly Weissmann Online)
Travel information with coverage of every country in the world. Information includes: geostats, what to wear, communication, dos and don’ts, weather and much more.
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Type: Encyclopedias
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Weissmann Online (now Travel42)
Travel information with coverage of every country in the world. Information includes: geostats, what to wear, communication, dos and don’ts, weather and much more.
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Type: Encyclopedias
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