WISER Beyond Wikipedia Reliable Reference Sources Gillian Beattie

WISER Beyond Wikipedia: Reliable Reference Sources Gillian Beattie Angela Carritt

Outline • Wikipedia • Reliable Reference Resources – Oxford Reference online – Blackwell Reference online – Credo Reference • Hands on • Finding reliable reference sources for your subject

Oxford Reference Online • Access to subjectspecific reference works for a broad range of subjects • Also includes English and bilingual dictionaries, English grammar and usage guides, quotations, maps and illustrations, and timelines

Blackwell Reference Online • Access to over 350 reference works covering humanities, sciences, and social sciences • Includes multidisciplinary collections on gender, postmodernism, globalization, and identity

Credo Reference • 100 reference books including encyclopædias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, conversion tools… • Includes general reference materials and subject specific

Finding reference sources for your subject: Oxlip+ Choose a subject Choose Reference (or if not available “General”)

Finding reference sources: the Science Portal

Science. Direct • Handbook of Statistics • Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics • Encylcopedia of Materials: Science and Technology • Treatise on Geochemistry • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. • Encyclopaedia of Materials • Encyclopedia of Cancer • Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics • International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences

Encylopedia of Life Sciences • Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Diversity of Life, Functional and Comparative Morphology, Genetics and Disease, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Plant Science, Science and Society, Structural Biology, Virology • All articles are peer reviewed • Tutorial available at www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/science/ training/tutorials

Finding Language Dictionaries • Dictionaries and references sources for languages collected by the Language Centre Library • http: //delicious. com/ Language. Lib. Oxford

Finding Biographical Resources