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American National Biography

American National Biography, the most comprehensive, inclusive biographical reference work on American history and culture, is now available online. ANB contains biographies of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life who have influenced American history and culture. Users will find biographies of well-known and obscure people as well as the famous and infamous.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Access 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

Oxford English Dictionary

For more than a century the Oxford English Dictionary has been the undisputed last word on the history and development of the English language. But language is constantly evolving, and there has been an explosion of new words, forms of usage and meanings in English throughout the world since the original publication of the OED in 1928.

  • Searches all 20 volumes of the print edition plus the three-volume Additions Series.
  • Find a term when you know the meaning but have forgotten the word.
  • Find words that have come into English via a particular language.
  • Search for quotations from a specified year.
  • Search for all quotations from a particular author and/or work.
  • Display entries according to your needs—turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings and quotations on and off.
  • Access to at least 1,000 new and revised words each quarter.
  • Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how language has changed and how new scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage.
  • Oxford English Dictionary Web site

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

Oxford Reference Online: The Premium Collection

The Premium Collection will enhance a subscription to Core with fully integrated cross-researchable access to nearly 50,00 entries from the engaging and authoritative Oxford Companions and an additional 20,000 entries from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. And exclusive to Premium subscribers, improved search functions for quick and easy retrieval of short and long subject reference entries, bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries and quotations and proverbs.

Oxford Reference Online: The Premium Collection Western Civilization Subject Cluster

Enhance your collection of online history reference materials by adding the Western Civilization Subject Cluster to your Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection subscription. Available by annual subscription only to Premium Collection customers, the Western Civilization Subject Cluster includes these award-winning titles:

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  • Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
  • The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

Strengthen your reference collection and reach out to patrons who rely on Web-based research by purchasing e-reference titles from the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf. Created from Oxford's award-winning print references, these full-text e-reference editions are fully searchable with remote access available anytime, anywhere. Buy any number of titles to fit your collection needs and deliver Oxford's authoritative reference content to your user's desktops and laptops.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online consists of four modules covering the following disciplines: Philosophy, Religion, Political Science and Economics & Finance. Each module contains the full texts of approximately 250 carefully selected titles from the core backlist in that discipline. The selected titles have been chosen, reviewed and approved by scholars widely acknowledged as experts in the respective disciplines.

The Grove Dictionary of Art Online

The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Published in January 2001, the eagerly awaited Grove II is the first new edition of this landmark music reference work in over 20 years. Publication also marks the first time in Grove history that Grove II has been available in both print and electronic formats, making it more accessible than ever before.

In June 2001, the world's premier opera dictionary online moved to grovemusic.com, the site of Grove's integrated music resource on the Web. grovemusic.com now includes the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

The Grove II Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing and an ever increasing network of Web-links to musical sites around the world. Please visit the vendor Web site for detailed information.

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