Online Reference Library

Oxford Art Online - Information on artists, architects, designers, images etc.
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The Oxford DNB Online - Search biographies of famous historical figures.
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Who's Who 2008 and Who Was Who - directory of influential people worldwide
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Nielsen BookData Online - Search over 2 million book titles.

Oxford English Dictionary Online - Find meanings, missing crossword puzzle letters etc. Check New words added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - French, German, Italian and Spanish bilingual dictionaries.

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Encyclopedia Britannica
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New Online Titles - Library and Home Access
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

Encyclopedia of Global Change

Issues Online - a resource for homework topics such as drugs, abortion, smoking etc
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Oxford Reference Online - a collection of over 200 reference titles
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KnowUK - over 100 key reference titles such as Whitakers Almanac, Ask Hollis, Who's Who, Which Guides etc.
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Trace your family history by using UK Census records from 1851 to 1901; birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate records.

Further information:

Oxford Music Online - discover all aspects of music.
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SearchMuze Online - Search by artist, title, music genre, composers, films, stage shows, soundtracts  etc.
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NewsUK - find archived newspaper articles from UK national and regional newspapers includes Leicester Mercury and Nottingham Evening Post.
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Visit our Local Studies Resources web page to view listing of historical newspapers held by libraries.

Free journal abstracts and articles from Scholar Google .
Use the search terms as Science, Technology, Innovation etc to search for journal articles.

A-Z listing of web-based general reference sources.

Please ask a member of library staff if you want to use Which? Online - to access current and back copies of Which? reports on the Internet.

Please note that we have a limited subscription to Which Online and therefore you may not be able to view all the Which reports.