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2010/06/01 Update!
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Premium Collection
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This is the home page - from here you can search across the whole database… Go straight to a subject or a book Or look at the maps and full colour captioned illustrations
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And explore the Timelines But now let’s start finding facts: enter a search term and click heart
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Here’s the list of results for your search for ‘heart’ Change the display of your results from here
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Or view all the illustrations from the Visual Dictionary AND any articles that include illustrations by selecting this tab Click here to go straight to the full colour captioned illustrations in the Visual Dictionary
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This is an illustration from the Visual English Dictionary All of the captions are searchable so that this illustration will be included in your results if you look for ‘aorta’ or ‘pulmonary’ You will find illustrations from the same entry section are also of interest
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This is the article from the Oxford Companion to the Body as indicated here Your original search terms appear in red Cross-references to entries in this book are highlighted in blue in the main text and listed alphabetically in the margin
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O Or at book level
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Western Civilization Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 WHAT IS IT? A subject cluster including a comprehensive selection of award-winning reference titles The works in this collection trace the development of western thought and culture from the time of Socrates to the Enlightenment, and the colonization of the Americas Fully searchable within Oxford Reference Online Premium Western Civilization Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment 4 Volumes, 1874 pages Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium 3 Volumes, 2338 pages Encyclopedia of the Reformation 4 Volumes, 2004 pages Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages 2 Volumes, 1624 pages Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance 1 Volume, 912 pages Oxford Classical Dictionary 1 Volume, 1696 pages LAUNCH TITLES Western Civilization Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 All the marked titles are part of the collection – searchable within Oxford Reference Online
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Literature Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 WHAT IS IT? a comprehensive set of distinguished reference works detailing literature from 8th century Germany, to Edwardian England to 20th century America provides unrivalled coverage of literary periods, genres, and writers, all cross referenced and fully searchable incorporated into Oxford Reference Online Premium within the ‘Literature’ subject group Literature Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 Encyclopedia of American Literature 4 volumes, 2272 pages 10 LAUNCH TITLES Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction 464 pages Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English 772 pages Oxford Companion to Chaucer 544 pages Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing 606 pages Literature Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 Oxford Companion to Italian Literature 690 pages New Oxford Companion to Literature in French 916 pages Oxford Companion to German Literature 699 pages Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing 535 pages Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales 640 pages Literature Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 NEW TITLES - COMING SOON Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, 5 volumes, 2800 pages, published on 23 March 2006 Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, 4 volumes, 1824 pages, published on 25 May 2006 Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation Oxford Encyclopedia of English Literature Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature Literature Collection
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All the marked titles are included in the Literature Collection
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Oxford University Press 2006 “The Bottom Line: Both thumbs are way up for Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection. It's bigger, it's better, the content is superb, and the design makes use of some of the best features we've seen in online reference publishing. Recommended for any and every library. This is a top-quality resource.” - Library Journal Oxford Reference Online
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Oxford University Press 2006 “will eclipse any general knowledge source online or in print” - Sydney Morning Herald “help whenever you need it... clear directions on every page.... The ability to search for other instances of any word or term in the database adds tremendous value to the service.” - Asian Age “The new turbocharged online database from Oxford University Press puts the serious back into serious research....subscribers can access the equivalent of 20 feet of books that include perhaps the most carefully compiled library on Earth.” - Chicago Tribune Oxford Reference Online
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