Book Information: Books, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias & Portals and Libraries

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Books

• 123 Price Check Searches for the best new book price in the UK
• Bookgroup.info Information on reading groups, including reviews and tips
• Books and Media An online guide to books and authors in the media.
• British Arts Festivals Association Literature festivals
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature Covers up to the end of the Nineteenth century
• Englishverse.com Classic English poetry and poets
• Fantastic Fiction Comprehensive bibliographies for over 15,000 authors as well as information on 250,000 books including cover picture, description and publication details
• Life and works of William Shakespeare
• Poetry.org Resources for poets and poetry
• Poetry Archive Listen to poets reading their own work
• Poetry Library Offers enquiry service
• Poetry Society
• Used Book Search Searches several major book dealers for used books
• Western European Literature Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English
• Who Else Writes Like...? S encourages readers to try the works of new authors and to open up to them the wealth of good reading that is available.
• Who Next...? S lists writers of children’s fiction with suggestions of other authors who write in a similar way, together with key book and series titles.
• Words Without Borders Reviews and books from around the world

Dictionaries

• Babelfish Free translation service
• Credo Reference S Access to various useful dictionaries giving concise definitions
• Oxford Dictionaries S Pro for access to online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content
• Oxford English Dictionary S The major reference dictionary, with comprehensive listing of each word origin
• Oxford Reference Online S Access to various useful dictionaries giving concise definitions

Encyclopaedias and Portals

• British Library Reference Collections
• Credo Reference S 100 ready reference books: dictionaries, encyclopaedias, Who's Who
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online S The full text of this encyclopedia
• Enquire The People's Network national live enquiry service where you can ask a librarian your question at any time of the day or night in realtime
• Intute Free online service providing access to online resources for education and research
• Issues Online S Debates on topical issues
• iTools Research tools for language, finance, maps and the Internet
• Oxford Art Online S Dictionary of art and artists
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography S 56,000 scholarly biographies from 2,400 years of British history
• Oxford Music Online S Dictionary of music and musicians
• Oxford Reference Online S 100 titles from Oxford University Press Title List (PDF, 156KB)
• Refdesk Quick-reference links
• Search 22 General reference resources
• UK250 250 subjects with onward links

Libraries

• British Library
• COPAC Access to the catalogues of specialist, academic and national libraries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
• Cornucopia An online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries
• The European Library
• find it! Guide to library collections and how to access them
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) Online free publication service for scientists
• UK Public Libraries Page
• University of Chester Library Catalogue