Electronic Resources
Encyclopaedia Britannica Resource
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Britannica Junior
For ages 5–11
Britannica Student
For ages 12 –18
Encylopaedia Britannica
For ages 18+
COBRA - Your one stop site with information covering all aspects of starting and running a business. Access from the library or from any PC with your library card number.
Enquire is a live question and answer service available 24 hours a day, every day. It works like instant messaging or chat room technology, allowing you to put questions to trained staff who can help you, just as they would if you were talking to them face-to-face or on the telephone.
Best of all the service is free and anyone can use it!
Best of all the service is free and anyone can use it!
OneSource. The number 1 source of information on international (incl. UK) businesses and executives for researchers, students and job seekers and businesses. Find answers to a wide variety of questions. Common uses are finding businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location. Conduct research about industries and companies. Find executives, corporate families and company descriptions and conduct powerful market research using up to date figures and industry reports. Use this yourself in the library or direct from your home/office using your library ticket. Please contact Information Services, Central Library on 01274 433649/57 for expert help.
The multi-award winning Oxford Art Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide - from prehistory to the present day.
The multi-award winning Oxford Music Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide - from classical to hip-hop and from baroque to blues.
INFOTRAC: Access current and historical full text articles from 50 journals and 10 newspapers
Full text articles from selected National Daily and Sunday Newspapers, as well as popular journals such as: Lancet, Good Housekeeping, Animals, The Bookseller, British Journal of Psychology, The Literary Review, Computer Weekly, Community Care, Design Week and many others. Search specific journals or all journals with a range of search options. You will need to be a member of the library to use this service from home. Please enter your library card number when prompted
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.