ALA Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline.

ARBA Online is a comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works. The online edtion was launched in response to popular demand from library professionals.

Looking for book reviews? Also check out our Subject Guide for Book Reviews.

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MLA Literary Research Guide

The Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics.

Now available via the UVic Libraries' website, under Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject.

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Abbreviationes - Medieval Abbreviations Made Easy

A database of medieval Latin abbreviations (first publicly shown in 1992, generally available since 1993), is a great tool for deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts.

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SpringerProtocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals, SpringerProtocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab. Written by renowned experts in the field with an emphasis on both comprehensiveness and ease of use, each protocol is organized in an easily reproducible recipe style, and offering helpful tricks of the trade in an invaluable “notes” section, SpringerProtocols is an invaluable resource for the modern research laboratory.

Now available via the UVic Libraries' website under Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject.

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A facsimile edition of the Codex Sinaiticus, known as the world's oldest bible, has been purchased by the library and is now housed in UVic Libraries' Special Collections.  Dated to somewhere in the middle of the fourth century, this manuscript is important to scholars of the bible and book history, as it was a technological marvel of its age.

See the facsimile book in Special Collections, view it online, or read more about it in: Codex Sinaiticus: the story of the world's oldest bible, by D.C. Parker.