About the publisher

Fast access to top quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology!

Oxford Reference Online is part of the Oxford University Press publications and brings together a vast collection of language and subject reference books from one of the world's biggest and most respected reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

This unique online library offers integrated and authoritative information across the full subject spectrum - from general reference, language and quotations to science and medicine, from humanities and social sciences to business and professional.

It also includes English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, English/Italian bilingual dictionaries.

OUP offer to eIFL countries and how to subscribe

The agreement between eIFL and Oxford University Press means that institutions and consortia in eIFL countries can access Oxford Reference Online products from 2007 thru 2010 at greatly discounted rates. In some cases access is provided at no cost.

If you are a librarian from an institution in one of the eIFL countries and would either like to know whether your institution has access to Oxford Reference Online or how to gain access to them, please get in touch with your country coordinator.

If you are a country coordinator, the agreement between eIFL and OUP as well as the licenses to fill out for access activation can be found at the MEMBERS ONLY area of our website, under "Publishers" section.

The following material is available to eIFL members:

-Premium Collection: a database containing titles in the Core Collection plus an expanding range of titles from the Oxford Companions series and enhanced functionality, as updated from time to time.

Subject collections available to Premium Collection subscribers:

1) Western civilization collection: a database containing the full text of Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Encyclopedia of the Enlightment, Oxford Dictionary of Renaissance, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Oxford Classical Dictionary

2) Literature collection: Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English, Oxford Companion to Women’s writing in the United States, Oxford Companion to Chaucer, Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction,Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, Oxford Companion to German Literature, Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, Oxford Dictionary of Plays

Click here for a full list of titles in the Core and Premium Collections

-Grove Music Online: a database containing The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2001). 500 of Grove's musical examples are available in sound as well as notated examples, as updated from time to time with new and revised entries.

-Grove Art Online: a database containing The Dictionary of Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. as updated from time to time with new and revised entries.

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