Oxford Reference: January 2009
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
This huge update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection contains five new long-entry and in-depth titles and five new editions, over 3,650 updated entries (many online-only), over 5,470 brand new entries, and many new illustrations and photos.
The update includes the latest edition of the celebrated Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland, hailed by The Times as ‘the finest reference book of its kind’. The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History is also included, provising readers with all the tools and advice they need to research into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins. A new addition to the Natural History subject area is The New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies, the authoritative overview of anthropods, including hundreds of color illustrations and photographs. The Oxford Companion to Global Change is also among the new titles added, and is a fully up-to-date reference work covering a wide range of pertinent issues surrounding both man-made and natural changes in the Earth’s environment.
The new editions are:
- The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
- A Dictionary of Zoology (with entry-level weblinks)
- A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (with entry-level weblinks)
- A Dictionary of Economics (with entry-level weblinks)
- A Dictionary of Sociology (with entry-level weblinks)
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January 2009 Update for full title details.