Reference resources can help you to locate a topic for your research. If you already have a topic, the encyclopedias and other general reference resources can be a quick way to find out additional keywords and phrases relating to describe your topic. Some reference resources also provide lists of related works or bibliographies.
E-Reference:
** AccessScience ** Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Contains encyclopedia articles, biographies, research updates, and science news.
Science Online Brings together essays on major topics and issues in the sciences, biographies, images and videos, news articles, and examples of experiments.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center One-stop source for information on social issues. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Issues and Controversies: Facts on File Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues, with objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view.
CQ Researcher Covers current and controversial issues with complete summaries, descriptions of pros and cons, lists of related citations, and more.
SIRS Knowledge Source Integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents and graphics, including "pro vs. con" content on major controversial issues.
Issues in Science and Technology Online version of magazine that discusses public policy related to science, engineering and medicine. Good resource for seeing the scientific views on current issues.
Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience Online reference set covering controversial issues (print copy in CAS Reference Q172.5.P77 S54 2002)
Print Reference in CAS Library:
Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia / Sal Restivo (CAS Reference HM846 .S43 2005)
Social issues in science & technology : an encyclopedia / David E. Newton (CAS Reference Q175.5 .N49 1999)
Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics / edited by Carl Mitcham (4 volumes, CAS Reference Q175.35 .E53 2005)
Controversies in science and technology : from maize to menopause / edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman (CAS Reference QH442 .C66 2005)
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World Book Web Online version of World Book Encyclopedia. Includes encyclopedia articles, pictures and videos, prinmary sources, and articles.
ABC-CLIO Reference Books Over 300 online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks.
Oxford Reference Online Online reference works in all subject areas.
CRCnetBASE Online handbooks and reference books on all types of scientific and technical topics.
e-Reference University Libraries' list of general and subject-specific electronic reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and statistical sources.