{"id":141,"date":"2020-11-26T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/?p=141"},"modified":"2020-11-26T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:12:23","slug":"reference-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/2020\/11\/26\/reference-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-143 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/files\/2020\/11\/4290551550_474fbb9086_c-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/files\/2020\/11\/4290551550_474fbb9086_c-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/files\/2020\/11\/4290551550_474fbb9086_c.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reference\u00a0resources such as almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopediae and thesauri etc. are a quick and easy way to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>examine facts and statistics about the world<\/li>\n<li>decipher abbreviations and definitions<\/li>\n<li>gain an overview of a topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The links below provide access to selected subscription and free reference resources. They include dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical services.<\/p>\n<h4>Dictionaries\/Theasauri<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\">Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online<\/a>: the authoritative dictionary of the English language &#8211; find out exactly what words mean, and also what they used to mean; includes the\u00a0<strong>Oxford Historical Thesaurus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a>: large collection of subject dictionaries and guides<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/tapor.library.utoronto.ca\/doecorpus\/\">Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus<\/a>: online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving\u00a0<strong>Old English<\/strong>\u00a0text; it covers over 3 million words of Old English and ca 1 million words of\u00a0<strong>Latin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/grandrobert.lerobert.com\/\">Le Grand Robert<\/a>: online\u00a0<strong>French<\/strong>\u00a0language dictionaries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectaco.com\/online\/index.php3?refid=511&amp;pagelang=23\">Ectaco Online Dictionary<\/a>: 23 languages<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eubd1.ugr.es\/\">English&lt;&gt;Spanish Dictionary<\/a>\u00a0(from Granada University, Spain)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/my.zanichelli.it\/\">Zanichelli Online Reference<\/a>\u00a0(Biblioteca italiana Zanichelli): online dictionaries and reference works in\u00a0<strong>Italian<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Encyclopaedias, biography, and general reference<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/www.citethemrightonline.com\/\">Cite them right<\/a>\u00a0(from Macmillan): tool that shows you how to correctly cite any information source, from ancient texts to Twitter, using a wide range of referencing styles<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a>: large collection of subject dictionaries and guides.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.ukwhoswho.com\/\">Whos&#8217; Who &amp; Who Was Who<\/a>: up-to-date information about over 35,000 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide, plus a historical archive going back to 1897 of entries for over 94,000 people, now deceased<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference\u00a0resources such as almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopediae and thesauri etc. are a quick and easy way to: examine facts and statistics about the world decipher abbreviations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/2020\/11\/26\/reference-sources\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5660],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cewl-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}