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Link to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website

Oxford English Dictionary

Link to the Grove Dictionary of Art

Link to the Grove Dictionary of Music

Link to Oxford Reference

Link to more online services

Children's search engines

Yahooligans

A version of the Yahoo search engine and directory designed for children. Search for something specific or browse through the categories. Each site has been chosen by experienced educators. US bias

Ask for Kids

Works in the same way as Ask. Ask a question and Ask will try and find the answer for you. All the answers have been vetted for their appropriateness for children. There is a US bias though.

Filtering options

Most major search engines offer filtering options that attempt to keep out material unsuitable for children. These are not perfect and it's possible that some material may get past them while safe material may be filtered out.

Google Safe search

Instructions on setting up filtering on a permanent or temporary basis.

Yahoo search preferences

Allows you to filter out adult content from web, image and video search results.

All the Web settings

Use this page to enable the offensive content filter.