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
  

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“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

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