Online subject encyclopedias/dictionaries for RU staff & students

Date Released: Tue, 19 February 2013 16:47 +0200

In additon to several individual encyclopedias (see below), Rhodes Library also subscribes to the Oxford Reference collection of over 125 core academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries.  

General:
Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED)   
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP)
Oxford Reference: Quotations (5 titles)
Oxford Reference: Literature (nearly 30 titles)
Oxford Reference: Bilingual dictionaries (33 titles)

Social Sciences & Humanities
Oxford Reference: Social Sciences (39 titles)
Oxford Reference: Language reference (17 titles)
Oxford Reference: History (nearly 30 titles)
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Sage)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier)
Oxford Music Online (OUP)

Sciences:
Oxford Reference: Science & Technology (over 40 titles)
Oxford Reference: Medicine & Health (10 titles)
Encyclopedia of Ecology (Elsevier)
Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Elsevier)
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Elsevier)