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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals. This means an additional 594,455 entries! The Premium Collection has over 55% more titles, 75% more entries, more than 114% more illustrations and over 142% more words than the Core Collection.

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Oxford Reference Online (along with a range of other Oxford Online resources) is now available in almost all public libraries in England as a result of a landmark agreement between Oxford University Press and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. More...

Fast access to top-quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology!

Oxford Reference online: Premium Collection combines rich and scholarly resources with authoritative, quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations, and timelines.

A vast online reference library...
  • Over 175 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics
  • The very best in quick-reference information plus authoritative in-depth articles
  • English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries including French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Over 1.3 million entries across 25 subjects, including an expanding range of Oxford Companions, the Visual English Dictionary, new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  • More than 6,000 illustrations, plus 775 full-colour maps
  • Key events in the 20th century linked to themed timelines
  • Updated regularly with new books and new editions

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