Subject Guide: General

The General Subject Guide will help you find resources that are not specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide specialized information--refined to one topic or area. To see more of these topical resources, see the Subject Guide Index page.

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Academic Search Complete:
  Indexes over 9300 periodicals and contains full text for over 4400 scholarly publications for nearly all academic areas of study.
• ArticleFirst:
  Index to articles from over 12,000 journals from all disciplines.
• Readers' Guide:
  Indexes popular/general interest periodicals published in the United States.
• Web of Knowledge:
  Provides general and cited reference searching for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

• Credo Reference
• Oxford Reference Books Online:
  Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
• World Book Encyclopedia AE 5 .W55 2005
• World Book Web
  

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• Google Scholar:
  Provides article level searching. Click on OhioLINK OLinks to find the article within our library resources.
• Librarians' Internet Index:
  A directory of librarian-selected web sites, organized by topic or searchable.