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These Bibliographies provide an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, expert recommendations and authoritative commentary on the best works available in the discipline covered, making them particularly useful for anyone beginning research.
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Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.
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Updated quarterly. Covers words from across the English-speaking world and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and phonetic pronunciation. Corresponds to the print Oxford English Dictionary published in 1989 and the three Additions volumes published 1993-1997.
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Includes selected eBook titles from de Gruyter and publishers using their platform, such as Harvard University Press. Allows unlimited access for licensed titles, which are identified by a small green box with a check mark. Titles may be read online with Adobe Reader. Both chapters and the entire book may be downloaded in PDF or saved; some may be available in EPUB format.
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Selected titles. Includes former CRC titles. Allows downloading of the entire book or reading online. By checking the "Full Access Content Only" box during your search, you can identify titles owned by the Libraries relevant to the search. Some titles may have DRM restrictions.
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Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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