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Oxford Reference Library is an online collection of in-depth, specialist content from Oxford’s award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, as well as a critical selection of partner publishers’ scholarly works. These major reference titles are available to access online exclusively through Oxford Reference. Each title is fully cross-searchable with over 300,000 free Overview pages, 275 free Timelines, and featured topical entries available on Oxford Reference providing you with a full research pathway.

The Oxford Reference Library has titles in the following subject areas:

  • Archaeology
  • Art & Architecture
  • Bilingual dictionaries
  • Classical studies
  • Encyclopedias
    • English Dictionaries and Thesauri
    • History
    • Language reference
    • Law
    • Linguistics
    • Literature
    • Media studies
  • Medicine and health
  • Music
  • Names studies
  • Performing arts
  • Philosophy
    • Quotations
    • Religion
    • Science and technology
    • Social sciences
    • Society and culture

User benefits

  • Navigate to content quickly and easily with a fresh design and intuitive functionality
  • Quick & advanced search catering for all user levels
  • 300,000 overview pages, 275 free Timelines, and online-only Quotations title
  • Illustrations, including photographs, line diagrams, maps, and tables
  • Thousands of high-quality and carefully researched web links
  • Personalization functionality allowing users to save content, searches, and more
  • Sharing is simple with integrated tools for social bookmarking, email, and citation export

An authoritative, efficient, one-stop shop for quick facts, definitions, and dates, which satisfies the great expectations raised by Oxford’s reputation in reference publishing … While it is true that these separate facts and definitions can be found by scouring the Web, no reference site, free or fee based, draws them together so well!” –  Choice

Start using Oxford Reference Library today at:   www.jclc.org/resources/databases/

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About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

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