• Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
• Cambridge Companions to Music.
• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
• Oxford Reference
• Canadian Encyclopedia

• Columbia Encyclopedia - Well-respected one-volume resource, 2000.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Limited access to information without a subscription
• New World Encyclopedia - Like Wikipedia, but with a more rigorous selection and editing process
• Reference.com
• Scholarpedia - A Wikipedia-like resource that peer reviews its articles
• Wikipedia - Wikipedia can be helpful, both as an information source and for its notes, bibliographies and web links. Note, however, cautions on the reliability of Wikipedia, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia 

Go to the library home page (https://www.twu.ca/library/) for the Library OneSearch search box. Choose the Books tab. For a guide to OneSearch go to http://libguides.twu.ca/LibraryOneSearch.