O.E.D. Online

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Some of you may already know but most local libraries will give you a card and number that will give you access to the best on-line dictionary in the world for use at home. Besides the etymological dictionary there are all the other O.U.P. publications such as the biographical dictionaries.

Definitely worth five stars.

Includes:

Companion to African American Literature
Companion to American Literature
Companion to American Literature
Companion to Australian Literature
Companion to Canadian Literature
Companion to Classical Literature
Companion to English Literature
Companion to English Literature
Companion to Irish Literature
Dictionary of Literary Terms
Companion to New Zealand Literature
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Dictionary of Shakespeare
Companion to Shakespeare
Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
Dictionary of Writers and their Works

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News UK - full text articles from national and regional newspapers and magazines

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 50,000 biographies of people who shaped Britain and beyond

Oxford English Dictionary - the origin, history and definitions of half a million english words

Oxford Reference Online - over 100 reference books from the Oxford University Press