Reference online
Oxfordshire Libraries provides free access to a wide range of online information, available in every library and to members from home.
Are you using an Oxfordshire library computer? Get quicker access and a wider range of titles.
Reference Online is available 24 hours a day, all year round and contains information on a variety of subjects from encyclopaedias to music, biography, news and art.
All you need to do is enter your library membership number - the nine-digit number without spaces - after clicking on each title. Some titles require a letter L in front of the number and we have indicated these below.
Britannica Online
The world famous encyclopaedia now in three editions for children, students and the full library edition.
Art images and a crossword solver are among this complete reference collection of 150 books from amongst 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics and titles to help you with the answers you are looking for.
Thousands of pages of information about art, artists together with images of many artworks.
Enter L followed by your library membership number.
The complete online version of ‘Grove’s Music and Musicians’ with information on classical music, world music, pop and jazz.
Enter L followed by your library membership number.
Articles from the national and regional daily and Sunday papers. Updated daily.
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.
Enter L followed by your library membership number.
The definitive dictionary of the English language.
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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.
Enter L followed by your library membership number.
The complete Times newspaper in facsimile. Fully searchable – a fascinating record of 200 years of world news coverage.
Who’s Who and Who Was Who: the essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually since 1849. Enter L followed by your library membership number.
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.
This page was last updated on 19 August 2008
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