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Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) is one of the world’s most highly regarded academic collections, containing high-quality reviews of academic research prepared by leading researchers and experts. It is designed for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and lecturers wishing to broaden their knowledge, explore the latest research and academic debates, and discover key sources and new perspectives – including those outside their own specialism. It comprises over 1,400 handbooks across 18 disciplines, including archaeology, law, political science, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, economics, religious studies, music and the social sciences.

Link: https://academic.oup.com/oxford-handbooks-online?login=true
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Oxford Bibliographies Online are guides to academic literature that help users quickly find the most important and reliable publications across a wide range of subjects: the humanities, social sciences, culture, religious studies, law, public health and others. The resource is useful for creating syllabuses and reading lists, as well as for finding literature for term papers and dissertations.

Link: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the world’s leading resource on the English language – it covers not only the meanings but also the origins and historical development of over 500,000 words and phrases! It contains a history of words based on over 3 million quotations, which can be browsed alphabetically, by topic or by source, as well as a historical thesaurus that shows how words have changed over the centuries. Another interesting feature is the expanded content on the varieties of English around the world (World Englishes) and so-called ‘antedatings’, i.e. the discovery of earlier examples of the use of words such as ‘glamour’, ‘bloke’ or ‘tooth fairy’.

Link: https://www.oed.com/?tl=true
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Oxford Reference (OR) is a comprehensive database that allows users to quickly look up information, definitions and facts, and access short and longer specialist articles. It contains over 300 reference titles and more than 160 dictionaries and compendiums covering fields such as archaeology, art and architecture, bilingual dictionaries, classical studies, encyclopaedias, English language dictionaries, history, linguistics and language sciences, law, literary studies, medicine and health sciences, music, philosophy, religion, quotations, social sciences, natural sciences and technology, culture and society.

Link: https://www.oxfordreference.com/
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Very Short Introductions is a series of concise and accessible guides written by leading experts, which provide a succinct overview of the key ideas and concepts in various fields. They cover five main subject areas, including: arts and humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics, and social sciences.

Link: https://academic.oup.com/very-short-introductions
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The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) is a collection of peer-reviewed expert articles covering 29 academic disciplines, produced by an international community of researchers. The database contains brief introductions to topics (Intros & Overviews), source texts (Primary Texts) and in-depth scholarly articles (Scholarly Works), along with bibliographies and interdisciplinary links.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) is a collection of peer-reviewed expert articles covering 29 academic disciplines, produced by an international community of researchers. The database contains brief introductions to topics (Intros & Overviews), source texts (Primary Texts) and in-depth scholarly articles (Scholarly Works), along with bibliographies and interdisciplinary links.

Link: https://academic.oup.com/oxford-research-encyclopedias?login=true
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