Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Oxford Research Encyclopedias provide scholarly, continually updated, accessible, and influential overviews of hundreds of topics across 24 disciplines. Incorporating the reliability of traditional scholarly encyclopedias and the flexibility and currency of Wikipedia, OREs fill a need for current, growing coverage that both students and faculty recognize as useful, authoritative, and citable.
Collection Overview
Students and scholars of all levels once would consider beginning their research with a good print encyclopedia that provided a reliable overview. Good encyclopedias also gave citations for further research. In the 21st century, such sources are often deprecated, both because print encyclopedias require a trip and because print encyclopedias rapidly become superseded by new information, and it is now standard to begin one's research with Wikipedia or even chatbots. Oxford Research Encyclopedias rely on the work of specialist scholar and peer review to achieve the authority of traditional encyclopedias, but they are available online, where they are updated regularly.
OREs:
- Provide extended and scholarly but accessible overview to a topic.
- Provide citations to related scholarly works and primary sources for further research.
- Are cited throughout and vetted by experts to assure their accuracy.
- Update their articles and add new ones as topics grow in importance.
- Cover 24 disciplines, including business, literature, history, education, social policy, economics, physics, etc.
Articles added in December of 2024 covered topics such as QAnon (Religion), Latin American subways (Latin American History), and Generative AI (Business), among many others.
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