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Access to over 250+ reference books covering art & architecture, fashion & theatre, law, medical conditions & therapies, geography, classical & modern history, languages, technology, business, economics & finance, biography, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bilinguals, literature and many more. Search each title individually or search across the entire collection.  Also contains a helpful crossword solver, and useful conversion calculators.

 

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CREDOstudent is available for our younger readers and students, and includes art, dictionaries, encyclopedias, geography, history, music, quotations, religion and science & technology and much more.

 

Provides summaries for nearly 3,000 diseases and conditions.  Dynamed is updated daily and includes history, diagnosis, treatment and patient information for each disease and condition listed. Click the Dynamed at the bottom right hand corner of the webpage.

Investigates all types of phenomena that change life on earth, and covers tsunamis, ocean pollution, mining regulations and permafrost melt. Includes a range of general research categories including altered eco-systems, climate change, food and water supply, and population.

Information on subjects ranging from global warming to recycling to alternative fuel sources and beyond.  Over 295,000 abstracts and full text for 4,600 records.

Provides access to the entire text of the Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols), as well as access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art. Access over 45,000 articles on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day, and over 21,000 biographies. Over 2,500 art images and line drawings in the text of articles, and over 40,000 image links from high quality museum and other art sites.  Also has extensive coverage of World Art, including information on civilisations and culture of Africa, Asia, Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic World, Japan, Korea, Europe, the Americas, Pacific and Aboriginal Australia, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Near East. 

 

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Provides access to the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.  Access all aspects of music worldwide from Bach to the Blues.  Includes over 50,000 articles, 20,000 biographies, over 500 Sibelius-enabled audible music examples from harmony to Handel, 5,000 links to related music websites including archives and illustrations, and 3D interactive images of musical instruments.

 

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Provides key information about people, places, institutions and organisations in the UK.  Search through over 100 titles, including Hutchinson Encyclopaedia of Britain, Debrett's People of Today, Educational Grants Directory, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide, various Blue Guides, Good Bed and Breakfast Guide, Hutchinson Guide to World Mythology, International Who's Who of Sport, Musicians and Songwriters' Yearbook, Willings Press Guide, Writers and Artists Yearbook, various Which? Guides, including 450 legal problems solved, Planning Your Pension, Living Together and Weekend Breaks in Britain and many more.

 

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Provides indexes to approximately 600 periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings.

Access to a variety of popular national and local newspapers and magazines online, including Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Times, News of the World, and The Observer.  Local newspapers include the Sheffield Star, Evening Standard (London), Manchester Evening News, Daily Post (Liverpool) and the Yorkshire Post.  Weekly magazines include The Economist, New Statesman and The Spectator.

 

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The new gateway to accessing Oxford's art content including Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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The new gateway to accessing Oxford's music content including Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.

 

From Antartica to the North Pole covering all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, discovery of the new world, polar expeditions and the space age.  Also covers navigational and marine sciences, and ranges from ancient cultures to space exploration.

Explore the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years.  From Julius Caesar and Boudicca to Princess Diana and Sid Vicious, from the founding fathers of America to the nawabs of Bengal.

 

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The most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world, and the definitive record of English language development over the last fifteen hundred years.  Includes extensive search options and traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words from the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of souces - from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.

 

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Provides comprehensive coverage from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zanghill.  Includes accounts of individual authors as well as detailed histories of themes, movements, genres and institutions.

Documents and interprets books read by children throughout the world.  Includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator.  Also includes feature essays on all genres of childrens literature, individual works and prominent trends and themes

 

From Ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments around the globe, including London, Paris and New York.  Covers dance, opera, film, radio, TV and popular performance

Over 3,000 A-Z articles from Abd al-Qadir to Zaynab.  Visual, geographic and social perspectives on global islam, including maps, illustrations, dynastic tables and demographic charts.  Designed as a first stop for anyone needing information on islam.

Language reference content in French, German, Spanish and Italian. Over 1.2 millions words and phrases and over 2 million translations.  Language support includes phrases, grammar guidance, click through web tables and pronunciation charts.  Also includes useful correspondence templates including sample letters and CV's and notes on life and culture.

 

Over 1 million entries from over 200 books, covering arts, science, history, environmental sciences, economics and business, dictionaries, bilinguals, literature, medicine, maths, politics, and many more.  Search each title individually or search across the entire collection. Includes over 2,000 key events of the 20th century, 500+ colour maps and flags, over 2,600 weblinks and over 12,000 images.

 

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Index of over 260 titles of teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books, covering key education topics including Assessment, Curriculum Development, Science & Mathematics etc

Access to 50 online journals covering general interest, professional, academic and trade journals.  Subject areas include history, ecology, education, fashion & beauty, hobbies & crafts, travel, sports and computing.

 

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Who's Who is the leading source of information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life today, Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together entries of over 90,000 deceased people who were included in previous editions of Who's Who.

 

Is a free 24 hours, 7 days a week online service that enables anyone to ask a question at any time day or night, so people do not need to wait until their local library opens. It is hosted by the People's Network with the active participation of staff from our own library service in Sheffield.

Check, renew or reserve items from Sheffield Libraries

 

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Community information website giving details of local clubs, groups, voluntary organisations and services in Sheffield.

 

A searchable computerised image system holding over 23,000 pictures of Sheffield, the majority of which were taken before 1950. 

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