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Use our free 24/7 online reference information in your library or at home, all you need is your librarycard or smartcard number
- CREDOreference - 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.
- Oxford Reference Online - 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.
- KnowUK - 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
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - look through over 50,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past, as well as various Themes.
- NewsUK - search through a variety of national and local newspapers. Also has useful news topics on a variety of issues.
- Who's Who and Who Was Who - Who's Who includes information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life, and Who's Was Who is an historical archives of over 90,000 deceased people, previously included in Who's Who.
Resources available in the library:
- Standard sociology texts covering current and historical social issues such as the family, race, gender, youth cultures and mass media.
- British Humanities Index an online database indexing articles from periodicals.
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