Are you looking for information on a person, checking a fact, or trying to find the definition of a concept or a term?  A good place to start could be Oxford Reference .
Bringing together about 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, you will get authoritative answers here.
What’s inside the collections?
As you browse through Oxford Reference, you may find results that range from short entries, and general reference, to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects.
Two collections are displayed:

  • Oxford Quick Reference, which consists of more than 135 academic subject, language and quotations dictionaries with short-entry content. The content is updated monthly.
    Best for checking facts, and looking up terms.
     
  • Oxford Reference Library which consists of more than 200 in-depth, specialized titles from Oxford’s Encyclopedias and Companions, and a selection of partner publishers’ scholarly works. New titles and editions are added throughout the year, as they publish in print.

Best for conducting more comprehensive research on a specific topic, drawing from in-depth articles

Beside all the dictionaries, encyclopedias and companions you will find discovery tools useful for your research, e.g., overview pages (at-a-glance subject pages defining the unique term), timelines and quotations.

If you are looking for bilingual dictionaries, you will find them in Oxford Reference, click reference type in the tool bar and chose bilingual dictionaries. Once you have chosen a specific dictionary it will open up and you can start your research.

If you need an English dictionary: again, click reference type and English dictionaries to see the collection.

You could also try out the Oxford English dictionary, which is the big English language dictionary focusing on historical information and also providing useful linguistic and grammatical background.  A smart tool has been created, the Oxford Dictionary widget, where you double click a word in any website and instantly see the definition in Oxford English Dictionary. You have to install it in your browser, see how.

Try out Oxford Reference.

Further information? Please contact Liselotte Brandstrup