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Reference
Biographies |
| www.axisweb.org/ |
Axis is the best online resource for information about contemporary art. The website features profiles of Axis features over 2,500 profiles of professional contemporary artists and curators |
| www.oxforddnb.com/ |
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| www.ukwhoswho.com/ |
Who's Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. |
Dictionaries |
| dictionary.reference.com/ |
Dictionaries including foreign language, thesaurus, translations to and from other languages |
| www.oxfordartonline.com/ |
Oxford Art Online includes Grove Dictionary of Art. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| dictionary.oed.com/ |
Oxford English Dictionary. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| www.oxfordmusiconline.com/ |
Oxford Music Online includes Grove Music dictionary of music and musicians. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/ |
Translation Services from Babelfish. Enter text 150 words at a time or enter the web address of a page you want to translate. |
Encyclopaedias |
| library.eb.co.uk/?library_id=derby |
Britannica Online Library edition. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| www.countmeincalendar.info/ |
Count Me In lists National Something or Other Weeks run by various groups. It lists categories such as Arts and Media, Children and Youth, Education and Learning, Society and Culture, and several more. It can be searched by category and date. |
| www.debretts.com/ |
Debrett's is the modern authority on all matters etiquette, taste and achievement. social occasions, people of distinction and fine style - the who's who and what's what in Britain. |
| www.liem.org.uk/ |
Libraries and Information: East Midlands includes 'Inspire' which enables any member of a public library to also access materials held in Higher Education and Further Education libraries |
| www.look4them.org.uk/ |
Look for Them is a joint initiative of 9 UK organisations to help you look for a missing person; contact a relative, or search for your natural parents. |
| www.oxfordreference.com/ |
Oxford Reference Books. You can access this at your local library or go to www.derby.gov.uk/libraries, click on Online Information Services and use your library card and pin. |
| www.timeanddate.com/ |
Time and Date gives time zones, world clock, calendar for any year, countdown to dates. |
| www.wolframalpha.com/ |
Wolframalpha is a computational knowledge engine. It generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. |
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