Digital Reference Centre
The 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.
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).
PLEASE NOTE: Credo Reference will be unavailable from 6:00 AM MST to 7:00 AM MST Friday, February 5, 2010 due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
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.
