Cyberlibrary eResources

Reference and news resources

This is the new version of CyberLibrary, home of Bournemouth Libraries' electronic resources. This version of CyberLibrary uses Single Sign On. You only need to sign in once with your library card to use all resources on this page.

Reference, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

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Oxford Art Online

Art encyclopedia, with an image library.

Oxford Dictionaries - English

A modern dictionary and guide to today’s language.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies

Biographies of famous Britons.

Oxford English Dictionary

A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of English words past and present.

Oxford Reference

Information from 200 Oxford University Press reference titles.

Oxford Music

Oxford Music Online is the eighth edition of "Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians", and contains articles commissioned specifically for the site as well as articles from "New Grove 2001", "Grove Opera", and "Grove Jazz". The recently published second editions of "The Grove Dictionary of American Music" and "The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments" are still being put online, and new articles are added to GMO with each site update.

American National Biography Online

Over 19,000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history.

Issues Online

Find out facts and figures for homework with Issues Online. High quality articles on today's social issues.

Oxford Bibliographies

You can now access Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature and British and Irish Literature for free logging in with your library card.

Every article on Oxford Bibliographies is a respected guide to current thinking in that area, written and reviewed by experts, and with original commentary and annotations.

The Victorian Literature module includes annotated bibliographies on over 100 topics including Gender, Charles Dickens, Race, and more. In the British and Irish Literature module you’ll find over 100 bibliographies, including topics such as Arthurian Literature, John Keats, and Christopher Marlowe.

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Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature

Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions (VSI) is the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly, combining facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable.

For the first time, these books are available online on an exciting digital platform.

Very Short Introductions will change the way you think about the things that interest you, and are the perfect route into subjects you previously knew nothing about.

You can also access ten Very Short Introductions titles: Twentieth Century Britain, British Politics, Drugs, Contemporary Art, History, Management, Mathematics, Nutrition, The Earth, and Planets