Oxford Research Encyclopedias and Oxford Reference, dictionaries and encyclopedias, are general research databases available to you through Archer Library. Selected links direct you to information about featured people, subjects, and topics covered in ENG 425. If viewing from off campus, you will need to authenticate using your AU username and password.
Resources on this page include library databases often used as research starters. They will help you explore a topic, providing an overview and general information. This is a great way to start and learn more about a subject before delving into research. If viewing from off campus, you will need to authenticate using your AU username and password.
Provides contextual and authoritative articles, research reports, videos, statistics, and opinion on hundreds of current social issues. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Collections include peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, book chapters, research reports, and primary sources.
Guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
In-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on a range of disciplines including business and management, climate science, criminology and criminal justice, education, environmental science, international studies, literature, politics, psychology, and religion..
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.