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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

Full text coverage Available to the public (in library only)


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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

Access:

Current QUT staff and students: available on and off campus (QUT username and password required). Public: available in the library only.

Simultaneous User Limit:

3 users.

Subject Guide:

  • Resource type
  • Dictionaries
  • Directories
  • Encyclopedias
  • Description:

    Contains the full text of over 130 dictionaries, plus an Encyclopaedia.

    • Offers coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics.
    • Offers the very best in quick-reference information plus authoritative in-depth articles by world famous authors.
    • Also contains a wide range of English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin.
    • Thesauri, and guides to English grammar and usage.
    • Includes over 12,000 illustrations and 500 full-colour maps
    • Timelines link over 2,000 key events in 20th century history in the areas of Art and Architecture; Performing Arts; Literature; Politics and Government; Society; Science, Technology and Medicine; and War.

    Documentation & Help:

    Online Help (Requires you to login with your QUT Access details)