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E-resources A-Z
Full A-Z list of the e-resources the Library subscribes to, plus useful free resources at the bottom of each page. Use the journals database for individual e-journal titles, and the Library catalogue for individual e-books.
Subscription resources
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| OECD iLibrary | Access to OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Employment Statistics and the Journal of Competition Law and Policy |
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| Online Egyptological Bibliography | Access to the Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) combined with the Bibliographie Altägypten (BA), providing coverage from 1822 to 2002 |
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| Orlando | Women's writing in the British Isles from 612 BC: authors' lives, writing careers, etc |
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Oxford Bibliographies - access to:
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Resource guides combining the features of annotated bibliography and high-level encyclopedia |
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| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) | Illustrated collection of specially written biographies of people from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past |
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| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online | Authoritative dictionary of the English language, incorporating the Oxford Historical Thesaurus |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online: Archaeology | Thorough introduction to archaeology topics |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science | Thorough introduction to political science topics |
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| Oxford Music Online | Includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music |
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| Oxford Reference Online | Large collection of subject dictionaries and guides |
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| Oxford Scholarship Online (from Oxford University Press) | Over 1400 current books from OUP on: economics and finance, law, philosophy, political science, and religion |
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| Oxford Journals (from Oxford University Press) | Access to ca 90 full-text titles, mainly 1996 onwards, plus access to the main archives for all OUP titles |
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Recommended free resources
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| OAIster | Indexes ca. 900 institutional e-print repositories (ca 14 million records) |
| OECD Statistics Portal | Browse down to the statistics section of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development website. Covers economic data on a wide range of topics |
| Official Documents | All Command Papers and House of Commons Papers, as well as key Departmental Papers published May 2005 onwards |
| Official Documents Archive | Selection of full text White papers, Green papers, Consultative documents, etc, published between 1994 and 2005 |
| OFFSTATS | Official statistics on the web |
| OneLook® Dictionaries | Links to 740 dictionaries |
| Online Book Initiative | Web link to FTP service |
| Online Books Page | Directory of online texts on the internet, compiled, hosted and managed by the University of Pennsylvania Library. Try the search screen, or browse the listings. |
| Online Literature Library | Out-of-copyright classics in literature. |
| OpenThesis.org | Searcheable database of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents (new resource with little scope so far) |
| Oxford Text Archive | Over 2000 eElectronic plain-text versions of (mainly out-of copyright) texts in literature, languages, and linguistics, including manuscripts. You need to submit your email address, and texts will be emailed to you as a WinZip file. |