Somerset Libraries: Reference Online

Your Somerset library card offers you free access to premium online resources.

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Ancestry Library Edition (in library use only)

The leading online resource for family history research.

Find out more about Ancestry Library Edition.

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British Standards Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online access to the complete collection of Standards from the British Standards Institution. For free home access you will need your library membership number and PIN.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Includes Britannica Student for ages twelve to eighteen and Britannica Junior for the under elevens.

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Infotrac Journals (access in your library or from home using your library card)

50 specialist and trade journals across a range of subjects.

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Newsbank Newspapers (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Full text articles from a range of local, national and international newspapers.

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Oxford Art Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online resource covering all aspects of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Over 55,000 biographies of notable Britons.

Find out more about the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Electronic editions of OUPs award-winning scholarly reference titles. Somerset Libraries subscribe to the following:

Encyclopedia of Evolution

Encyclopedia of Global Change

International Encyclopedia of Dance

Oxford Classical Dictionary

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

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Oxford English Dictionary via Somerset Libraries website (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online access to the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world.

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Oxford Music Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online access to the ultimate authority on all aspects of music.

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Oxford Reference Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Fast access to top-quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology.

Find out more about Oxford Reference Online.

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searchMuze (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Contains 830,000 music and 108,000 DVD/VHS entries on all UK released music, including pop, classical, sound tracks and spoken word, and also film sound tracks, DVD and VHS.

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Times Digital Archive (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Fast access to top-quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology.

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Who's Who (access in your library or from home using your library card)

The essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide. Includes Who Was Who.