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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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