Online encyclopedias and research

Access to Research

Access to Research is a research database featuring articles from world-renowned publishers.

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BFI Replay

BFI Replay is a free video on demand service with thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the collections of the BFI National Archive and partner UK Regions and Nations Film Archives.

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Britannica Library

Britannica Library is an encyclopedia with content for learners of all ages, connecting you to authoritative, age-appropriate reference materials.

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Credo

Access millions of articles from full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books, Credo Reference covers all major academic subject areas.  

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To access the full site outside the library, click on 'Log in' on the top right corner of the Credo website.

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Oxford Dictionaries Online (English)

Access more than 350,000 modern English definitions and entries, 600,000 synonyms and antonyms, and a vast bank of more than 1.9 million real English example sentences showing words as they are used in today's English.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Accces more than 65,000 biographies, 75 million words, 12,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British History. 

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Oxford English Dictionary

A guide for researchers around the meaning, history and usage of more than 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world. 

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Oxford Reference Library

Find subject references, quotations, language dictionaries, award-winning Oxford Companions and Encyclopedias.

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Which

Find independent, unbiased reviews and advice, covering a wide range of products and services, on Which (opens new window).

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Who's Who and Who Was Who

Directory of the noteworthy and influential people who impact British life, plus more than 100,000 entries from the archives dating back to 1898.

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