Subject guides: English: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

eBook collections, eJournals and eReference

e-book Collections
E-book collections in the University of Sydney Library
Oxford Reference Online
Comprises over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Dictionary
Online access to the 20 volume second edition.
Bible in English
Twenty-one different versions of the English Bible, including two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah and New Testament.
DOE: Dictionary of Old English
Searchable vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, from the letters A to I.
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LEME : Lexicons of Early Modern English
An historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises.
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Middle English Compendium
Access to three major Middle English electronic resources, - Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
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Book History Online
BHO is the online version of ABHB, the current international bibliography in the field of book and library history.
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It records all publications of scholarly value, written from an historical point of view. This may include monographs, articles and reviews, dealing with the history of the printed book, its arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, its economic, social and cultural environment involved in its production, distribution, preservation and description.
Cambridge Histories Online
Includes History of the Book. Provides access to the complete series of Cambridge Histories from Cambridge University Press, browsable by 15 key subject areas including American, British, Economic History, Histories of science, the book, literature, theatre, religion, music, language, and warfare

Other Catalogues

The British Library Public Catalogue
The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) is a web interface to the main British Library catalogues, describing over ten million items.

Libraries Australia
Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and also includes Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), PictureAustralia, the British Library Catalogue, Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries,Library of Congress Catalogue, and OCLC WorldCat.
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