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Oxford English Dictionary
Alternative titles: also known as 'OED'
Description: A full-text online dictionary, accepted as the authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.
We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with remote access to this service.
Videos and guides about how to use the new OED website (opens in own window)Coverage: 1000 CE onwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, E-books, History, Literature
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Oxford Music Online
Alternative titles: also known as 'Music online'
This resource includes: Grove Music Online
Description: Over 50,000 articles from Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Music, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Oxford Reference
Alternative titles: previously known as 'OROOxford Reference Online'
This resource includes: Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford Dictionary of MusicDescription: Over 175 premium reference e-books from Oxford University Press, with over 1.4 million entries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Rare Book Hub
Description: The Rare Book Hub is a resource for information pertaining to rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints.
Subjects: Reference Works, History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Screen Studies Collection
Alternative titles: also known as 'ProQuest Screen Studies Collection'
Description: Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
Publisher: Proquest
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, Journals, Music, Catalogues & Bibliographies, E-books, History, Art & Design
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Description: Founded as a supplement to The Times (London), for more than 100 years the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. This is a digitial archive of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 to 2014.
Coverage: 1902 to 2005
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Science, Journals, History, Literature, Biography
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900
Alternative titles: also known as 'Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900'
Description: Series 2: an online bibliographic database of 50,000 Victorian newspaper and periodical publications, with 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
Library users have extended access until 31 July 2024
This includes access to a further 23,000 publications, 20,000 personal names, 1,728 issuing bodies and 244 subjects through Series 3 (opens in new window), and Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900 (opens in new window)Publisher: North Waterloo Academic Press
Subjects: Newspapers, Reference Works, Journals, Catalogues & Bibliographies, History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Who’s Who & Who Was Who
Description: A reference work containing the current Who's Who - with over 34,000 autobiographical entries of noteworthy and influential people who impact British life - plus the entire Who Was Who archive from 1897 onwards.
Coverage: 1897 onwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, History, Biography, Family History
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