December 2010

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The Oxford English Dictionary has been relaunched with a new interface as well as new features such as:

  • Links to the online “Oxford Dictionary of National Biography” to see biographical entries for authors of the illustrative quotations used to illuminate the use of words
  • Links to the online “Historical Thesaurus to the OED” so you can follow semantic links through the dictionary for almost every word from Old English to the present day
  • Browse by categories (e.g. subject / region of origin) and timelines (showing when words entered the English Language) with the facility to refine your searches further

The dictionary is updated on a quarterly basis with the latest update in December 2010 revising and adding 2,400 entries including those for crickling, idget and “dictionary attack”!

Search the relaunched OED now!

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Need to look something up? Your Library gives you access to many different respected resources - both in print and online - like dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Here is just this month’s list of new reference works!

New printed reference works

NIST handbook of mathematical functions / Frank W.J. Olver, editor-in-chief and mathematics editor; Daniel W. Lozier, general editor; Ronald F. Boisvert, information technology editor; Charles W. Clark, physical sciences editor.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : NIST, 2010.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–515-NIS

British pharmacopoeia 2011.
London : The Stationery Office, 2010.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–615.1142-BRI

British pharmacopoeia (veterinary) 2011.
London : The Stationery Office, 2010.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–615.1142-BRI

Oxford beginner’s Japanese dictionary / edited by Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
3RD FLOOR DICTIONARIES–495.632-OXF

The concise encyclopedia of western philosophy / edited by Jonathan Rée and J.O. Urmson.
London : Routledge, 2005.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–103-CON

A dictionary of 20th-century communism / edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service ; translated by Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2010.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–335.4-DIC

The Hutchinson illustrated encyclopedia of British history.
Oxford : Helicon, 1995.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–942-HUT

For more reference works, look up individual titles on the Unicorn catalogue

New online reference works

To find more, go to our Online dictionaries and encyclopedias page.

Other new resources

Other new books and new e-books are listed on the Unicorn catalogue.

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