Oxford Reference Online Premium

Library computers have full access to the Oxford Reference Online Premium. Library members can also get access from home.

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What is Oxford Reference Online?

Search a wide range of Oxford reference books for in-depth information on every subject from art to zoology, including:

  • over a million entries from the Oxford Companions, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and more
  • English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian
  • timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history
  • images, maps and flags.

Check which books you can search on the full list of titles.

Use Oxford Reference Online at home

Use your library card and PIN to sign into the E-library and go directly to the online reference library page.

After you've signed into the E-library, there will also be a link to the 'Online reference library' on the right of every page.

Library members – full subscriber access

Non-members – limited access

Further information

You can find out more about using Oxford Reference Online from the Oxford University Press website – short introductions.