Free on-line resources from Bournemouth Libraries

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Credo reference

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Mostly reference books and dictionaries. Its a bit like wikipedia, without all the inaccuracies. And without the richness or 'browse all night' user experience! The search engine cuts across all sources, so you can search dozens of encyclopaedias and dictionaries in one hit.

Oxford Reference Online

An immense number of dictionaries and reference books.

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News Bank

A huge repository of periodicals and newspapers, globally. As well as national UK newspapers, there's a selection of local newspapers, some specialist periodicals for particular industries, and publications of wider interest such as The Economist.

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Times Digital Archive

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Oxford English Dictionary

The full OED with its 100's of thousands of definitions and citations, as 'popularised' by BBC show Balderdash and Piffle.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Library Edition

Various flavours of the Encyclopaedia and its sister publications. Plus, accessible off search results, articles from other publications and periodicals.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Not quite the coffee table tomes that some of the more influential Brits have inspired. Usefully cross-linked by topic and related people.

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Grove Music Online

Three New Grove dictionaries - Music and Musicians, Opera, and Jazz. Some content includes score if you've got the right browser plugin. And by 'right' I mean Windows or MacOS.

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Grove Art

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Kompass

Company information. Doesn't seem to work. First, you have to click on a link on the Council website, they check where you came from, and then the password they ask for doesn't appear to be the library card number.

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Issues Online - Independence Educational Publishers

Curriculum / topic based info and links to other sources, aimed at people at school

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