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Visit the Oxford Reference Online website.

Oxford Reference Online is a complete reference collection at your fingertips. It offers authoritative content on 25 subject areas, in over one million entries. It can be used to find quick answers to questions or provide more in depth coverage and cross-reference topics.

Additional features include:

  • a timeline
  • over 12,000 images
  • over 500 maps and flags, many in colour with fully searchable captions

Every title has external links to other useful websites. Print or e-mail articles and illustrations.

Hardcopy versions of the information now available online.

Amongst the titles available are:

  • Oxford World Encyclopedia
  • Oxford Companions series including Western Art, Medicine, Philosophy and Shakespeare
  • 130 Subject dictionaries including Finance, Accounting, Geography, Psychology, and Sociology
  • Bi- lingual dictionaries in Spanish, French and Italian plus a range of English language material
  • Timelines include coverage of the twentieth century, science technology and medicine, or the performing arts

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