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Our online databases are available at our Resource Centre. You can also access most of them remotely through our Athens system -  . You need to be a member to use them.
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Literature Resource Centre |
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 The Gale's Literature Resource Centre is considered a flagship database and combines the following resources: Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography, covering around 9,000 authors. The offer also includes over 200 full-text journals and the Scribner Writers and Twayne's Authors Series. |
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The Oxford Journals |
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 OUP publishes almost 190 journals, most of which are now available online. The Oxford Journals Online Collection includes some of the world’s most highly cited and prestigious journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines, with enhanced searching, linking and alerting features. |
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Oxford Reference Online |
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 Oxford Reference Online is the core collection of 100 dictionary, language reference, subject reference works published by Oxford University Library.
It is a fully indexed cross searchable database giving subscribers unprecedented access to comprehensive information resources; wide choice of search options to suit all levels and experience; carefully researched web links; access to foreign language dictionaries. Over 1.5 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places and dates. |
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OED - Oxford English Dictionary |
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 The OED is the complete contents of the twenty volume Second Edition Oxford English Dictionary and the complete contents of the three Additions volumes published 1993-7.
Enables users to explore the English language in a new and exciting way.
Gain unique online access to at least 1,000 new and revised words each quarter. Find out how far the OED systematically records relationships between words such as synonyms. |
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Oxford Scholarship Online |
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 Oxford Scholarship Online makes many of the important scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the humanities and social sciences available online for the first time. It currently has four subject modules – Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, and Political Science – and offers over 700 complete and fully searchable books, with at least 200 titles to be added each year. |
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Ashridge - Virtual Learning Resource Centre |
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 The Ashridge VLRC offers its users access to the full range of Ashridge's highly regarded Learning Guides.
These guides cover a broad spectrum of management skills and competence and have been compiled by Ashridge tutors and associates. Each of these guides contains an overview of the topic area, recommended resources, together with a variety of practical development activities. |
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Emerald |
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 Emerald is a database providing full text access to 35,000 articles from a hundred UK and international journals, principally in the field of management. The British Council subscription will give you access to articles in the subject areas which are of greatest interest to our library members. You can access both Emerald Fulltext and Emerald Management Reviews. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica |
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete Encyclopaedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, the Britannica Book of the Year, an Internet directory and 118,000 articles plus illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. |
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Grove Art Online |
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 Grove Art Online is the authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day. It provides online access to the entire text of the acclaimed 34-volume Dictionary of Art plus newly-commissioned articles. It offers a wide range of search options, and extensive links to images from galleries and museums around the world. In includes thousands of articles, biographies, and searchable images, plus links to useful web sites covering people, places, art forms, styles and movements, institutions, museums, and other organisations, exhibitions, and more. Its scope is multicultural, with articles written by over contributors from 120 countries. |
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Grove Music Online |
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 The multi-award winning Grove Music Online includes the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the 4-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition). It includes 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, including sound archives and illustrations. |
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XreferPlus |
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 With currently 150 from 30 world class publishers XreferPlus offers unrivalled coverage of all major academic subject areas combined with powerful search methods unique to Xrefer. Xreferplus uses patent pending cross-indexing to allow users to access full text reference materials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the library or from anywhere they choose. Use the administrators interface to 'pick and mix' from the collection to meet your needs: choose 100 titles, 125 titles or all - you choose which package you want. |
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EBRARY |
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 Ebrary offers more than 60,000 full-text books and other documents from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers, covering all academic subject areas: Business & Economics, Career & General Education, Computers, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Science, Medicine, & Allied Health, Social & Behavioral Sciences. |
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