OUP E-books Oxford English Dictionary Online

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Year Joined PERii
2006

Resource Name
OUP E-books Oxford English Dictionary Online

Resource Type
Online reference collection

Access URL
http://www.oed.com/

Content Overview
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 600,000 words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 3 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Subject Strengths
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. 

Service Strengths

  • Search the equivalent of 23 volumes of information with speed and ease
  • Find a term when you know the meaning but have forgotten the word
  • Find words that have come into English via a particular language
  • Search for quotations from a specified year
  • Search for all quotations from a particular author and/or work
  • Display entries according to your needs for the first time you can turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
  • Gain unique online access to thousands of new and revised words each quarter
  • Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how language has changed and how new scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage.

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Publisher FAQs are available on the website. The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) is available on CD-ROM 978-0-19-956383-8 and as a 20-volume print edition 978-0-19-861186-8