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Encyclopedia Articles
- Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia articles about famous people.
- Pop Culture Universe This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia articles on popular culture in the United States in the 20th century.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowFully-searchable collection of authoritative encyclopedia articles. (NVCC)
- Oxford Art Online - Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window30,000 signed articles and images on visual arts, over 6,000 subject entries and 20,000 biographies, and 7,000 searchable images. This resource also includes the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. (NVCC)
Encyclopedia Search Tips
Since encyclopedia articles focus on basic, general information about a topic, what you type in the search box should also be general:
YES: cold war
YES: cold war AND effects
NO: effects of the cold war on the american lifestyle in the 1950s
Newspaper Articles
- ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowIncludes the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, and many newspapers from around the U.S.
Newspaper Article Search Tips
- Newspapers are about specific events, so what you type in the search box must also be specific.
- Type AND between each new word or idea. For example:
polio AND iron lung AND children