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Cerritos College Library has access to online databases that contain encyclopedia resources. The databases showcased below are found in the ​​​​​Databases A-Z webpages:

• Gale E-books​ (aka Gale Virtual Reference Library) is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • SEARCH by Topic/Person/Keyword and the keyword 'encyclopedia' to retrieve encyclopedic subject matter results.  
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO database) is a database which provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
  • SEARCH by Topic/Person/Keyword to retrieve reference-related results from encyclopedia resources.  
• Oxford African American Studies Center Provides access to reference sources in African American studies featuring the Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895; the African American National Biography project; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America; and Africana.  
• Salem Science  Access the complete content of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and more. NOTE: To search the contents of an individual title, navigate to the Search page and click on the desired title.  
• World Book Encyclopedia Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the suite includes more than 40,000 articles, 270,000 primary source documents, and 5000 e-books. It also includes a Spanish language encyclopedia, timelines, atlases, dictionaries, web and periodical links, as well as current events and Back in Time articles.