Writing About the Arts: Reference

Introductory ebooks to writers, artists, topics, philosophers, and literary and philosophical periods. Frequently updated with new information.

Rice University has access to all titles published through 2024.

Guidelines for bibliographical citations and writing style in the Chicago style.

Centralized search for reference texts published by Oxford University Press, including dictionaries, biographical information, language reference, encyclopedias, and subject overviews.

This is a comprehensive, authoritative and in-depth reference resource including several major encyclopedias on music and musicians, opera and jazz.

This streaming video resource contains many interviews and reference entries along with streaming play productions.

Art resource containing Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, with access to more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.