This page offers a broad sample of electronic reference resources and texts available for faculty, students, and staff through the OSU Libraries. Many valuable print texts also remain available in the Thompson Library Grand Reading Room and the reference collections located in OSU departmental libraries. For specific titles, please search the OSU Libraries' catalog.

General Collections

The OhioLINK Scholarly & Reference E-Book Collection

The OhioLINK Scholarly & Reference E-Book collection includes encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical sources, guides and more from a variety of publishers, including ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, and Springer.

Oxford Reference Online (Premium Edition)

Oxford Reference Online offers a robust collection of bilingual & English dictionaries, quotation reference books, an encyclopedia, and many specific reference texts focused on subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

 

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Knovel

This collection includes over 2,300 reference books on a variety of engineering and technical subjects. 

 

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online delivers over 12,400 information technology, digital media, and business electronic books online. Use Safari Books Online to find titles such as Learning Android (Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2011) or Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Design Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (San Jose, Calif. : Adobe Press, 2010).

Other Collections

Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias
Quick Facts
& Statistics
People
(Biography, etc..)