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Britannica - Junior edition

Special version of Encyclopaedia Britannica aimed at younger children. Visit Britannica - Junior edition.

Britannica - Libraries edition

Users of Wandsworth's libraries can access the comprehensive online version of the world-famous Encyclopaedia Britannica. You will need your library card to login.

Britannica - Student edition

Special version of Encyclopaedia Britannica aimed at students and young adults. Go to Britannica - Student edition (You will need your library card to login.)

COBRA

COBRA is a comprehensive, practical and continually updated information resource for anyone looking to start a business, write a business or marketing plan or conduct research into a new market. Visit COBRA. (Please enter your library card number).

Credo Reference

Credo Reference (formerly known as xreferplus) provides access to a large selection of reference sources including encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Enquire

Enquire is a free service which allows you to chat to a global network of library staff who are trained to help you find answers to your questions around the clock. Visit the Enquire website.

GoCitizen.co.uk

GoCitizen is an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK Test or British citizenship test. Wandsworth Library users can access GoCitizen.co.uk from home using their membership number or at any Wandsworth Library.

Issues Online

Information on current social issues. Visit Issues Online

NewsBank

NewsBank UK provides 250 local, regional and national newspapers from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Wales.  Choose from more than 120 key international titles from around the world. Full-text content database of local and regional newspapers.  You will need your library card to login. 

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001).

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Oxford Dictionaries Pro

With up-to-date online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content based on the largest language research programme in the world, Oxford Dictionaries Pro is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked English language resource.

It offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing.  Login to Oxford Dictionaries Pro

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Wandsworth libraries users can access the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The site provides 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.

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Oxford English Dictionary

Wandsworth libraries users can access the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Oxford Music Online

The Oxford Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell, was published simultaneously in print and online as Grove Music Online in January 2001.

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Oxford Reference Online

Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection.

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Theory Test Pro

Online simulation of the UK's driving theory test. Wandsworth Library users can access Theory Test Pro from home using their membership number or at any Wandsworth Library.

UK Press Online 

UK Press Online is an online archive of several tabloid newspapers, covering 1900 to the present day. Offering contemporary accounts, reports and opinion on everything from world politics to the latest fashions of the day, as told in the pages of some of the most-popular newspapers of all time, including the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror.  Go to UK Press Online.

Who's Who 2013 and Who was Who online

The essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually by A & C Black since 1849.

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