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Online Reference Shelf: About This Guide

eBooks and quality web-based reference materials.

About this Guide

Finding quality information on the Internet can be a challenge.  This guide makes it easy to find a wide variety of material, from authoritative introductory articles on topics to statistics to quotations and more.

Web-based information in this guide is of two types:

1.  Print reference material (books!) in digital format.  These books are generally only available to BC students, faculty and staff and will require password access off campus.  Books included are award-winning reference encyclopedias and more.

2.  Web-based reference.  Websites have been  selected based on the quality and accuracy of information included.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Nancy Pressman Levy of the Princeton University Library for the use of her guide to online reference sources.

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