Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

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Oxford Reference online - You can access this extensive collection of reference works for free, from any library in Staffordshire (find your nearest library) or from home by using your library card number. A vast range of subjects are covered, from Accounting to Zoology.

Other dictionaries

Dictionary.com - offers both dictionary and thesaurus searching, plus numerous links to translators, and a Dictionary Doctor.

Infoplease Encyclopedia and Dictionary - thousands of detailed articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, plus English Dictionary.

OneLook - this site links to a range of dictionaries

Your Dictionary - allows searching of both dictionary and thesaurus and also links to numerous other language resources, including foreign language and multi-lingual dictionaries, and more specialist types such as abbreviations, synonyms and antonyms, and acronyms and abbreviations.

Last Modified: 25/09/2008 15:42:00
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