Dictionaries and encyclopaedias
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Dictionaries - Language
- Bilingual dictionaries from Oxford Reference Online
- Bilingual Dictionary - on campus only
- Dictionary of Old English: A to G Online
- Dictionary of Old English Corpus
- Middle English Compendium
- Oxford English Dictionary
Dictionaries - Subject
- Concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms
- Dictionary of accounting
- Dictionary of cognitive science
- Dictionary of e-business
- Dictionary of energy efficiency technologies
- Dictionary of leisure, travel and tourism
- Dictionary of social work
- Dictionary of terrorism
- Elsevier's dictionary of psychological theories
- Harty's dental dictionary
- Historical dictionary of psychiatry
- New dictionary of the history of ideas
- Operating department practice A-Z
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford Art Online
- Oxford Music Online
- Routledge dictionary of modern British history
Encyclopaedias
- Concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Encyclopedia of biodiversity
- Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture
- Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences
- Encyclopedia of neuroscience
- Encyclopedia of the novel
- Encyclopedia of nursing research
- Encyclopedia of the Qur’an
- Encyclopedia of parasitology
- Encyclopedia of religion and war
- Encyclopedia of stress
- Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture
- International encyclopedia of the social sciences
- MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences
- New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics
- Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies
- Schirmer encyclopedia of film