Encyclopedias:

• cover knowledge or branches of knowledge in a comprehensive, but summary fashion;
• are useful for providing facts and giving a broad survey of a topic; and
• are written by specialists

To search EUCLID for encyclopedias:

1. From EUCLID's search screen, select KEYWORD

2. Type in the word "encyclopedia" -- then the word "and" -- followed by your subject word.

e.g., encyclopedia AND biology

3.  Click on SEARCH EVERYTHING.

 

4. This example search would retrieve books' records such as:

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Woodruff Reference Collection: QH302.5 .E525 2002

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Bioscience
Woodruff Reference Collection: QH302.5 .M378 2005