Secondary Schools outside North and South America

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

"Reliable, authoritative, flexible and full of fascinating detail."
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"The DNB should be in the national curriculum."
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Explore the lives of over 55,000 people worldwide who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years – from the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal.

• Over 55,000 biographies
• Over 63 million words
• Over 10,000 portrait illustrations

NEW! ODNB Learning Resources Centre!
A new range of materials to aid teachers wishing to use the online Oxford DNB in lesson planning and project work is now available. More...

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

"Entirely suitable for all subject areas ... an essential purchase for any school ... an indispensable resource." TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia)
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"The searchability of this database is simple, yet awesome ... highly recommended and a best buy." School Library Journal

Fast access to top quality, authoritative information on every subject - from Art to Zoology!

The Premium Collection offers unlimited access to:

• Over 1 million in-depth articles and quick definitions
• The full text of over 180 dictionaries and reference books covering every subject
• English dictionaries, thesauri and usage guides
• Bilingual dictionaries in French, Spanish, Italian, and German
• 12,500 images - including 6,000 in full colour with fully searchable captions - (sample illustrations)
• 900+ full-colour maps and flags
• NEW! Timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history - (sample timelines)

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection offers access to in-depth articles from an expanding range of important titles in the Oxford Companions series - including Margaret Drabble on English Literature, Stanley Wells on Shakespeare, M.R.D Foot on World War II, and Colin Blakemore on The Body.

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Grove Music Online

"...a fantastic and easy to use resource..."
SCHOOLZONE - an independent teachers evaluation service

"This is an invaluable resource for both teacher and student. The site is particularly outstanding because it provides valuable links to related articles both within the site and on other websites."
Education Guardian

"The content of the articles is excellent ... an invaluable resource for both teacher and student."
TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia) - an independent teachers evaluation service

The ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide - from Bach to the Blues! Including 50,000 articles, 28,000 biographies, and thousands of links to images, sounds, and related websites, Grove Music Online covers everything you need to know about composers, performers, styles, works, traditions, instruments and much, much more.

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Grove Art Online

"All in all...a wonderful resource...The information is very well written, with exhaustive cross-referencing..."
SCHOOLZONE - an independent teachers evaluation service

"This site is very relevant to the art curriculum ... a remarkable resource and one which is well worth paying for." Education Guardian

"The site is quite simply an exhaustive online visual arts resource centre ... a veritable Aladdin's Cave of goodies." TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia) - an independent teachers evaluation service

Grove Art Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide - from Ancient Egypt to Abstract Expressionism! Including over 40,000 articles, 20,000 biographies and 45,000 image links, Grove Art Online covers everything you need to know about artists, architecture, sculptors, genres, cultures, techniques, museums and much, much more.

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Oxford English Dictionary Online

"I genuinely enjoyed the evaluation, primarily because it took me into areas of learning that created interest and curiosity in a significant number of the students. We began to look at Language as an ever-growing and powerful part of the English heritage. For a while, we even forgot about SATs!" SCHOOLZONE - an independent teachers evaluation service

"A wonderful addition to any Upper School's learning resources" TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia) - an independent teachers evaluation service

The ultimate authority on the English language! The Oxford English Dictionary is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. Find out the meaning, origin and evolution of over 500,000 words. See how words have been used through over 2 million quotations, and discover just how much words have changed their meaning over time.

What was the original meaning of "skyscraper"? Which words came into English during the 1960s? How many English words derive from Urdu? Which words were first recorded in the works of Jane Austen? These are just a few of the fascinating things that you can discover using the unique Oxford English Dictionary Online.

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Oxford African American Studies Center

"...a great subject-specific resource that, for years, has been lacking in many school libraries...this database provides students with a new depth of historical, biographical, and scholarly materials on African Americans." School Library Journal

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully-edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Learning resources are available to aid research at any level, and to help education professionals incorporate the Oxford African American Studies Center into their teaching.

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American National Biography Online

"...this stellar scholarly undertaking is for anyone from the informed general reader to students from middle school on up. Academic users...should warmly welcome it." Library Journal

The American National Biography Online is the premier source of information about over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. With sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to external web resources, ANB Online is "likely to induce compulsive browsing". (Wall Street Journal)

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Oxford Scholarship Online

"The Holy Grail of online resources." KATE SLOSS, Information Services Manager, London School of Economics and Political Science

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,200 research level Oxford books across 4 modules: Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, making it an ideal resource for scholars and students.

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