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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. French, German, Spanish and Italian are currently available; Russian and Chinese will be added in May 2008, along with revolutionary new audio pronunciation software.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
www.oxfordislamicstudies.com
Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and will be regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online
www.oxfordmusiconline.com
Online access to the largest and most authoritative popular music reference work! The 10-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music is already established worldwide as the most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music - and it is now available online for the first time! In addition to being regularly updated with thousands of new and revised articles each year, it will also be fully cross-searchable alongside Grove Music Online within the new Oxford Music Online gateway.
Oxford African American Studies Center
www.oxfordaasc.com
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, researchers and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. The core reference content includes the highly acclaimed Africana, the new Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, 2nd edition, and the African American National Biography. Additional content hand-selected by editors has been drawn from numerous fine Oxford University Press titles. Over 1,000 images and more than 200 charts, tables, graphs, along with over 250 primary sources with introductory essays round out this incredible resource in African American studies. The site is updated three times a year to maintain the most recent scholarship in the field.
Oxford Scholarship Online
www.oxfordscholarship.com
NOW EXPANDED TO INCLUDE 14 SUBJECT AREAS! Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library, offering quick and easy access to the full text of over 1,900 Oxford scholarly monographs. In addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion, Oxford Scholarship Online now offers access to new Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, and Music. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, and up to 400 new and recently-published books are added each year. Libraries may select only the subject modules of interest to them, either subscription access or perpetual access (purchase).
Oxford Reference Online Premium
www.oxfordreference.com
Since its launch in 2003, Oxford Reference Online Premium has been at the forefront of delivering high-quality reference works in a single cross-searchable database. Containing over 1 million entries across 25 subjects, 11,000+ images, over 2,600 high quality carefully researched web links, this collection has firmly established itself as the reference resource of choice in universities, colleges, public libraries, and schools.
American National Biography Online
www.anb.org
The American National Biography Online is the premier source of information about over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. With sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to external web resources, ANB Online is ‘likely to induce compulsive browsing’. (Wall Street Journal)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
www.oxforddnb.com
Explore the lives of over 55,000 people worldwide who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years – from the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal. Also includes access to the biographies from the original 33-volume Dictionary of National Biography. Over 55,000 biographies, 63 million words, 10,000 portrait illustrations – now available online.
Grove Music Online Now Relaunched!...
www.oxfordmusiconline.com
We are delighted to announce that Grove Music Online has been completely redesigned, and now forms the cornerstone of an important new online gateway, Oxford Music Online.
Grove Art Online Now Relaunched!...
www.oxfordartonline.com
Grove Art Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day - and the best just got even better! The relaunched Grove Art Online offers new design, content, functionality, and partnership links.
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