Palomar College Library
Online Research Databases
Reference Databases
Credo Reference Open Database  Display Database Description
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Our collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Oxford English Dictionary Open Database  Display Database Description
The Oxford English Dictionary provides definitions, history, and pronunciation for over half a million English words, present and past, from all areas of the English-speaking world. It also offers etymological analysis and variant spellings.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Open Database  Display Database Description
Includes brief articles covering over 25,000 topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Open Database  Display Database Description
This database provides 'eBook' reference content in a database format, including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include arts and humanities, biography and genealogy, business and industries, general and consumer interests, government and political science, health and medicine, law, science and technology, and social sciences.
Gale Literary Reference Databases Open Database  Display Database Description
A subset of the Gale Literature Resource Center this includes full-text from the following literary reference book series: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Biography Resource Center Open Database  Display Database Description
Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people from around the world and throughout history. It combines more than 135 frequently consulted Gale biographical databases with nearly 300 full-text periodicals.