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Undergraduate Student Support: Encyclopaedia

This library guide strives to provide e-support for undergraduate students at the NWU.

What is an Encyclopaedia?

Translated form Greek it means "rounded education"

As information sources they

  • are collections of knowledge
  • can be general in content (covering various topics)
  • can be subject specific
  • are generally arranged alphabetically

Various encyclopedias

General Encyclopaedia:

Subject-specific Encyclopaedia:

Britannica Image Quest

Imagine an encyclopaedia for images!

  • online access to more than two million images from one convenient site
  • images that are rights-cleared for noncommercial educational use
  • free, high photographic images for assignments, student reports and projects

Use of Britannica Image Quest is for NWU registered students only.

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information"

(T.S. Eliot)