Definitions for "Encyclopedias"
The Garland encyclopedia of world music / advisory editors, Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone ; founding editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice. Excellent 10 volume set, with accompanying CDs. World music : the rough guide / edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham and Richard Trillo, with Orla Duane and Vanessa Dowell. Discusses the traditional as well as current popular musics; includes discographies. Grove music online. Good general world coverage; contains maps, musical examples and bibliographies. American musical traditions / Five volumes containing maps, illustrations, a glossary, bibliographies and discographies
example There are two basic types of encyclopedias. A general encyclopedia covers all branches of knowledge and is comprehensive, but general in scope. A subject encyclopedia focuses on a specific discipline or area of knowledge. See: Finding Background Information.
reference books that provide overviews of topics. Some encyclopedias may be broad (such as World Book) while others focus on a specific subject (such as the Encyclopedia of Psychology).
cover many topics of general interest or topics in a specialized field. They are a great place to begin your research or find a topic for your paper! The ERIC Database is an index and abstract database for education articles published in journals and reproduced in ERIC documents.
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