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. Not a library member? Join the library online.
Britannica Online
The world famous encyclopaedia now in three editions for children, students and the full library edition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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