If you need additional help with your research for this class, including finding articles, organizing your research, or citing your sources, you can contact the Libraries' Ask Us! team here: https://library.osu.edu/askus (please let them know you are taking English 1110).
Reference or background sources (also called tertiary sources), including general and subject encyclopedias, can give you concise overviews of topics, together with lists of sources for further reading. This box includes selected general and subject-specific reference and background sources, and to the right is a search box for Credo Reference, an online reference library that provides access to over 500 highly-regarded, scholarly reference books for all subject areas.
What is this searching? Credo Reference covers over three million full-text entries from reference books. These resources provide a great foundation for background information on a topic. More Search Options >>