Oxford Reference
We are pleased to announce that Coventry Libraries and Information Service now provides access to titles from Oxford Reference.
Oxford Reference is an online collection of in-depth, specialist content from Oxford’s award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, as well as a critical selection of partner publishers’ scholarly works. These major reference titles are available to access online exclusively through Oxford Reference. Each title is fully cross-searchable with over 300,000 overview pages, 275 free timelines, and featured topical entries available on Oxford Reference providing you with a full research pathway.
User benefits
- Navigate to content quickly and easily with a fresh design and intuitive functionality
- Quick & advanced search catering for all user levels
- 300,000 overview pages, 275 free timelines, and online-only quotations titles
- Illustrations, including photographs, line diagrams, maps, and tables
- Thousands of high-quality and carefully researched web links
- Personalization functionality allowing users to save content, searches, and more
- Sharing is simple with integrated tools for social bookmarking, email, and citation export
“An authoritative, efficient, one-stop shop for quick facts, definitions, and dates, which satisfies the great expectations raised by Oxford’s reputation in reference publishing … While it is true that these separate facts and definitions can be found by scouring the web, no reference site, free or fee based, draws them together so well!” - Choice
You can use Oxford Reference for free as part of your library membership. Not a member? Join the library.
How to use Oxford Reference
Use Oxford Reference online via the website
- Go to Oxford Reference
- You will need your library card number (the 14-digit number on the back of your library card)
Help
Library staff are available to help you use any e-resource provided by the library service. Don’t know where the library is? Find a library.
