Oxford Reference Online - Core collection

Oxford Reference Online website.

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General reference, arts, history, business, sciences languages and more.

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The Core Collection includes over 100 specialist and general reference dictionaries.

Print editions are held for some of the titles

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Extensive help is available on the system.

Access: Launch searches in Oxford Reference Online from anywhere on the Web easily by highlighting a word on a webpage and clicking on the icon "Search Oxford Reference" (Which can be downloaded to your browser toolbar from the ORO website).
URLs are permanent, so it is possible to bookmark individual publications within the collection for future use.

Searching: There is a variety of search options.
Quick search is liable to return extensive results for common words but there is an option to initially search within a subject or to choose to restrict to a certain subject once the number of results is determined.
Advanced Search allows users to select from a standard search, boolean search or pattern search; whether to search fulltext, entry headings, people or dates; and select the subjects or individual titles within which they wish to search. After a search on part of the collection has been completed, there is a link to search the entire collection so it is very easy to broaden the search.
The Crossref feature makes it easy to find the meaning of a word used in a definition.
When entries are displayed users also have a list of words on either side of that entry in the dictionary. These words are available as direct links
Results:
Individual entries can be emailed. There are no special features for printing or downloading or for emailing several entries at one time.
When an entry is displayed, a note on how to cite the entry is also displayed.

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Other modules are to be released in the future