Library Contact
Jeffrey Martin
Contact:
110E Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
(734) 936-2344
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary This link opens in a new windowThe largest, most comprehensive American dictionary of the English language.
Basic English language encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica OnlineEncyclopaedia Britannica's latest article database (including hundreds of articles not found in the print edition), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year (1994- ), with thousands of web links selected by editors.
- Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition)The most complete and authoritative dictionary of the English language.
- SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new windowOver 130 single-subject encyclopedias and handbooks, mainly in the social sciences
- Oxford Reference OnlineOver 125 dictionaries and thesauri, language reference, quotation, and subject-specific reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences,
- Thesaurus.comCombined access to Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1922 ed.) and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1995). Provides brief definitions of words, with lists of other words with synonyms and antonyms.
Archaeology Reference Books
- Oxford Companion to ArchaeologyComprehensive encyclopedia with close to 800 entries on historical archaeology, archaeological theory, field methods and techniques, and major excavations. 2nd ed., edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford, 2012. Electronic only. Requires authentication.
- Dictionary of ArchaeologySingle-volume dictionary of archaeological terms, eras, sub-fields and major sites. Published by Blackwell, 1999, Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson, eds. Electronic only. Requires authentication.
- Encyclopedia of ArchaeologyCovers four major areas: archaeology as discipline, the practice of archaeology, a geographic overview of archaeology today, and archaeology in the everyday world. Deborah M. Pearsall, editor-in-chief. Elsevier, 2008. Electronic only. Requires authentication.
- Companion to Social ArchaeologyLynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, eds. Wiley, 2006. Electronic version for University of Michigan affiliates only.
- Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human EvolutionComprehensive encyclopedia of terms relating to the evolutionary history of modern human populations. Wiley, 2011. Electronic version for University of Michigan affiliates only.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences26-volume comprehensive encyclopedia for the social sciences.
Also in paper: Grad Reference, Shapiro Undergraduate Reference H 41 .I581 2001. Electronic version for University of Michigan affiliates only. - Native American EthnobotanyDatabase of about 80,000 plants used by native americans as food, drugs, dyes, fibers and more. Entries linked to USDA Plants Database.
- Encyclopedia of American Indian HistoryShort essays on American Indian history, culture, government, people and groups. Brief Indian Nation histories.