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Encyclopedias and Study Support

Britannica Online: Encyclopaedia Britannica

A great homework, study or research resource with in depth articles, photos,
audio links, videos, diagrams, index, A-Z browse,interesting links, a dictionary and much much more for all ages.

Britannica Online: Britannica Student
As above but modified for young people aged 12 - 18 years old.

Britannica Online: Britannica Junior
As above but modified for children aged 5 - 11 years old.

Credo Reference

If you are looking for study help or information on on the Arts, Business, Food and Drink, Dictionaries, Biographies, Quotations, Geography, Law, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Social Sciences and Technology this site is a must. Very similar to Oxford Reference shelf, but with all other major publishers. IT CAN ALSO LINK YOUR SEARCH TO OUR LIBRARY CATALOGUE!!

Issues online
The UK's first comprehensive reference source on topics such as Crime & Justice, Drugs & Alcohol, Economics and Welfare, Environment and global issues, Family & Relationships, Health & Well-being, Citizenship & Participation, Media, Rights & Discrimination, Science and Health. All printable with 100s of useful links. Ideal for study and general interest.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection - a compendium of over 175 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopaedia, offering unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics. (See list of contents or by subject here).

Newspapers and magazines

Newsbank online

Full-text newspaper articles, from local, national and international newspapers. Online and Free.

Infotrac Custom Journal Database
Full-text articles from a selection of UK and international magazines and journals

The Times Digital Archive.
The full-text of every article to appear in the Times newspaper from 1785 - 1985 (use Infotrac Custom Newspaper Database for later articles). Please note: access to this resource is very limited, and may not be available at all times.

New 2011!!

19th Century British Newspapers online

Full-Text articles from a wide range of 19th Century London and GB  newspapers. Lots of images also included. Articles on Trafalgar, Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Jack the Ripper to name a few

People and their lives

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online - an illustrated collection of more than 56,600 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. 

Who's who 2011 and Who was who 1898- 2011

Who was who contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898: the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history

Music & art resources, dictionaries and audio books

Naxos Music Library:

NEW 2011

Over 550,000 tracks online from classical music to Jazz, Blues and World.
To listen just search for the track or album you want, tick the box and
press play selection. Music tracks are streamed rather than downloaded to your computer. Please remember to log out after use,as we have restricted usage.

Naxos Spoken Word Online: NEW 2011

Listen to hundreds of books online. Audiobooks are broken down into short chapters so you can listen to the whole book at once or a chapter at a time.Audio books are streamed rather than downloaded to your computer. Please remember to log out after use,as we have restricted usage.

Oxford Music Online - articles and sound clips covering musicians, genres, record companies, music festivals, songs, and more. (Previously Grove Music Online

Oxford Art Online
Articles, images and a comprehensive series of links covering painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, textiles, jewelry, design, furniture, and more. (Previously Grove Art Online.

Dictionary Corner.

Oxford English Dictionary Online - the full text of the world's most comprehensive dictionary.

Oxford English Dictionaries and Thesaurus
350,000 definitions and 600,000 synonyms and antonyms. A vast bank of linked example sentences, taken from real English,
and detailed writing, grammar and spelling guidance.

Language Dictionaries -

Including English dictionaries and thesauri and French, German,Spanish and Italian to English and back to English to Franch, German, Spanish and Italian.

Stand alone online Free Encyclopedias

1. Encyclopedia of Global Change
300 authoritative articles and entries covering a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies.

2. The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Over 800 entries from Antarctica to the North Pole, The Oxford Companion to World Exploration offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age

3. Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
This encyclopedia provides authoritative and up-to-date information (4,300 entries) about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television and popular performances including carnivals and circuses

4. Encyclopedia of Evolution
A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. 

5. Encyclopedia of Popular Music

30,000 entries covering all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day,including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The expanded edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals and more...

6. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

An indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics and more...

7. Oxford Companion to the Book