Oxford Reference Online

Online access to Grove Art Online; Oxford Music Online; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford Reference Online using your library card.

To use any of the following follow the links below and put in your library card number prefixed with COV in the box for library card number. (COV needs to be in capital letters)

COV28002xxxxxxxxx where x is any digit. Please do not put in the spaces from your barcode number.

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Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online (external website)
What Grove Art Online offers - (now called Oxford Art Online)

An award-winning resource on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day
Over 45,000 articles on fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture
Scholarship written by over 6,000 international contributors
Over 130,000 art images, with links to hundreds of museums and galleries around the world
A wide range of search and browse options to explore the full text, bibliographies, biographies, and image links

Library barcode login on left hand side of the screen. Put COV in before your ticket number.

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online (external website)
What Oxford Music Online offers

Over 45,000 articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles
Scholarship written by over 6,000 international contributors
Over 5,000 links to images, sound, and other related web sites
Over 500 audio musical examples
A wide range of search and browse options to explore the full text, bibliographies, works-lists, biographies, and links

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (external website)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 authoritative, signed, biographies of notable men and women connected with the British Isles, from all walks of life, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. No living people are included. Biographies vary in length from a few dozen to over 30,000 words. Each includes a list of sources. 10,000 are illustrated. The database also includes the full text of the original Dictionary of National Biography.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Oxford English Dictionary Online (external website)
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.