Oxford Resources
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You can access all of the Oxford resources we subscribe to via this landing page.
These include:
What Everyone Needs to Know® is a series written by leading experts in their fields and offers authoritative discussions of complex contemporary issues on over 100 subjects from gender to sustainability to robots in a lively question-and-answer format.
The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary that includes the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped all aspects of British history and culture worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
Oxford Dictionaries Premium is the home of our premium language resources for English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Oxford Reference is a core foundation of 160+ academic, short-entry dictionaries, best for checking a fact.
Very Short Introductions are introductory level books, providing users highly readable, broad overviews to inspire interest and enthusiasm in a topic.
Who's Who is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 32,500 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide.
Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive going back to 1897, which includes the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who.
Oxford Bibliographies are reading recommendations, pointing users to the best sources on a topic while letting the researcher read the original scholarship.
Oxford World's Classics provides access to authenticated classic novels and writings. Volumes include expert introductions, comprehensive notes, author chronologies, and up-to-date bibliographies, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, and literature enthusiasts.
American National Biography offers an extensive national record of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.
The Oxford African American Studies Center holds more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field, combining the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists is a comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911, including 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale.
The World Shakespeare Bibliography is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present.
The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.