Reference Extracts | OUP
Oxford University Press publishes many valuable reference resources. The overwhelming majority of the content is behind a paywall (libraries usually subscribe), however this list of OA entries from various OUP titles might prove to be useful in and of itself, but it could also lead researchers to a dictionary or encyclopedia that will fill an information gap.
General encyclopedic works - World Digital Library
With a total of 96 digitized books (as of Nov.2021), this collection includes all 86 volumes of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar'), published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890–1907 and Muḥyiddin ibn Arabi's Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya (The Meccan revelations)
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online — Brill
Founded by the late Professor Ehsan Yarshater and edited at the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, this monumental international project brings together the scholarship about Iran of thousands of authors around the world.