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A few titles require a library membership number. Enter the nine-digit number without spaces. If you are not a library member, please ask a member of staff for a temporary number. If you join the library, you will also gain access to many of these titles from any computer.
Ancestry Library Edition
Trace your family tree using the largest site online including the UK Census from 1841; birth, marriage and death records; parish and probate records.Please note that Ancestry is available in libraries only.
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Britannica Online
The world famous encyclopaedia now in three editions for children, students and the full library edition.
British Library Newspapers Collection
This collection contains full runs of 71 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns, including Jackson’s Oxford Journal, and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Of great interest to local and family historians.
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Credo Reference
Art images and a crossword solver are included in this complete reference collection of 150 books from across 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics and titles to provide the answers you are looking for.
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Cobra - the Complete Business Reference Advisor
Fact sheets, opportunity profiles and essential information for the small business.
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Grove Art Online
Thousands of pages of information about art and artists including many images.
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Grove Music Online
The complete online version of ‘Grove’s Music and Musicians’ with information on classical music, world music, pop and jazz.
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Litfinder
Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Requires Infotrac Library membership number.
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Naxos Music Library
Listen to whole discs or individual tracks of genres including classical, jazz, blues, and world music through this streaming service. Choose from over 60,000 CDs including the entire Naxos catalogue and hundreds of other licensed independent labels, such as ARC, EMI Classics, Chandos, and Sun Records with 500 new CDs added every month. Enter your library membership number in the Passcode box at the top left hand of the page.
Adobe Flash is the default player for Naxos Music Library. The latest version of Adobe Flash can be downloaded here: http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/flashplayer/.
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Newsstand
Formerly known as NewsUK, Newsstand is an online gateway to full text articles in over 170 national and regional newspaper titles. National titles are largely from 1990s onward whilst local titles date mainly from 2000 onward. Also includes The Economist, The New Statesman, and The Spectator.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The nation’s authoritative biographical source of 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The definitive dictionary of the English language.
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Oxford Reference Online Premium
The Premium Collection offers over 170 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series.
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Searchmuze
The definitive online guide to UK music, video and dvd releases
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Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
The complete Times newspaper in facsimile. Fully searchable – a fascinating record of 200 years of world news coverage.
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Which
Product reviews and trusted independent advice on consumer issues. Please note that online Which? access is only available in libraries that have printed subscriptions - download this pdf to see which libraries subscribe (pdf format, 8KB). Please ask staff to log you in.
Who's Who
Who’s Who: the essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually since 1849.
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Oxfordshire Libraries Answers Direct
A new countywide service from Oxfordshire Libraries, aiming to provide a quick response to information enquiries by phone, letter or email for everyone in Oxfordshire. Visit Answers Direct.
Click here to use Read Aloud by Insipio. Page reloads with controls for text to speech.
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