Digital Reference Centre
The Digital Reference Centre (DRC) provides access to a wide variety of online reference tools, such as atlases, almanacs, and encyclopedias. These resources are useful starting points for researching a topic because they provide quick access to facts, definitions, and general background information. Some are freely available on the web and others are available only to AU students, faculty, and staff. There are also multidisciplinary/multipurpose collections of online reference tools:
Oxford Reference Online (Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students) Access a cross-searchable web database that brings together dictionaries of quotations, language dictionaries and thesauri, and dictionaries for science and medicine, humanities and social science, and business and law, as well as the World Encyclopedia.
Sage Reference (Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students) This database provides access to 23 handbooks and encyclopedias on subjects including anthropology, health and social welfare, politics and international relations, business and psychology.
Credo Reference (Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students) Access a selection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific online reference books for business, science, law, history and other disciplines.
Access to Credo Reference is provided through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). Athabasca University Library thanks the Government of Alberta for its generosity in funding the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL). This content enriches the learning environment for all Albertans, including the faculty and students of Athabasca University.
