CREDOreference
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- Subject coverage: Online reference books including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and thesauri in a wide range of subject areas. Search single titles, subject clusters or all titles.
- Size/scope: Over 600
- Type of content: ebooks
- Level of access: Some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch.
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Library Hub Discover
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
- Size/scope: simultaneously searches 139 UK and Irish academic, national and specialist library catalogues (including the British Library). Replaces COPAC and SUNCAT
- Type of content: library catalogues
- Level of access: catalogue records only.
Oxford English Dictionary
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- Subject coverage: English language dictionary
- Size/scope: 500,000 entries
- Type of content: reference definitions
- Level of access: full text.
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Oxford Language Dictionaries
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- Subject coverage: translating language dictionaries
- Size/scope: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian
- Type of content: reference
- Level of access: full text.
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WorldCat
- Subject coverage: Library catalogues
- Size/scope: Catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
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