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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. Visit Britannica - Libraries edition.
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. Go to Credo Reference
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.
KnowUK
KnowUK provides key information on the people, institutions and organisations which influence, govern and make up the United Kingdom. It draws together, in a single electronic source, some of the most heavily-used and authoritative reference materials in any library - from Who's Who and Debrett's People of Today through The Municipal Yearbook to a series of Which? guides and The Statesman's Yearbook. KnowUK contains over 80 publications. Visit KnowUK.
NewsUK
Archive of articles from national and regional newspapers and magazines with in-depth background information on a range of contemporary issues. You will need your library card to login. Go to ProQuest UK Newsstand.
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).
Enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Visit Oxford Art Online.
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.
Enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Go to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford English Dictionary
Wandsworth libraries users can access the Oxford English Dictionary.
Please enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Oxford Islamic Studies Online brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world.
Please enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Visit Oxford Islamic Studies Online.
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.
Enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Visit Oxford Music Online
Oxford Reference Online
Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection.
Enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Go to Oxford Reference Online
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.
How to sign up for Theory Test Pro
When you first use Theory Test Pro, you will need to register with your name, email address and password. There is no charge for this. This information allows Theory Test Pro to save your test scores so you can follow your progress as you practise for the test.
If you sign up from home or anywhere else outside of the library, you will also need a valid library barcode number, available on your library card.
Click here to sign up for Theory Test Pro
Who's Who 2011
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.
Enter your library card number preceded by wandsworth to login; for example wandsworth002023167. Go to Who's Who 2011.
