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Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world renowned Oxford Companions series.

Subjects: Arts, Biography, Business, Health, History, Law, Literature, Maori, Music, New Zealand, Science & technology

Audience: General public, Secondary students, Tertiary students

Content type: Homework resources, Quick facts, Images

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Features of Oxford Reference Online include;

  • The biggest, most up-to-date, authoritative, accessible, editorially vetted reference work in the world
  • Over 1.5 million facts and definitions
  • Thousands of illustrations, maps and links to other web resources

More about Oxford Reference Online on their website

URLs for Oxford Online Databases

Page last updated: 27 January 2011.