Research Resources

With more than 750,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms for writing.

Books, Print, and Media Awards from the American Library Association. Includes information about Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, and other awards.

Indexes a database of full text sources, audio and visual versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, interviews, and other recorded media events.

This tutorial is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of APA Style.

Find primary source documents and personal narratives in Gale Archives Unbound.
 

Find out what to read next through expert reviews, author biographies, and in-depth searching.

Find the source and origin of over 18,000 common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell.
 

An 18-volume historical encyclopedia of literature which contains "over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology, and political writing."

A brief overview of how to cite sources for research writing using the Chicago Manual of Style method.

Citation Machine® helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use, and includes various citation styles, including APA, MLA, Turabian, and more.

Enter the information from your source, choose your options, and the site creates a citation for research writing.

Find digital versions of magazines and newspapers library subscriptions.

Search across multiple premium e-book reference sources published by Gale.

Journal and magazine articles focused on literature, including author biographies, criticism, excerpts and plot summaries.

Primary source material (7 million items) dealing with American history and culture.

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Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. 

A list of current and past years' Maryland Black-Eyed Susan winners and honorees. This award is a student choice award for the State of Maryland chosen each year since 1992.