{"id":22,"date":"2020-09-08T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2020-09-08T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:00:17","slug":"reference-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/reference-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Reference material and bibliographies<\/h2>\n<h3>Online reference works<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a>: large collection of online reference works which can be searched singly or as a group. It includes subject and language dictionaries, thesauri, Who&#8217;s Whos and biographical dictionaries.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\">Oxford English Dictionary (OED)<\/a>: the online version of the authoritative dictionary of the English language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/reference\/index.html\">More online reference works<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Free online reference tools for health and medicine<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mims.co.uk\/\">MIMS (Monthly Index of Medical Specialties)<\/a>: access available to GMC registered members, MIMS subscribers, or on a free 1 month trial basis to health care professionals and practitioners<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medilexicon.com\/\">MediLexicon<\/a>: dictionary of medical and pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/encyclopedia.html\">Medline Plus Medical Encyclopaedia<\/a>: photographs, articles and illustrations of medical and health topics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.human-nature.com\/odmh\/index.html\">Online Dictionary of Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerindex.org\/\">Online Medical Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reference books and indexes<\/h2>\n<p>In the Templeman Library subject based reference and bibliographic material is usually shelved in separate sequences\u00a0<strong>near the main book sequences for that subject<\/strong>. Both reference and bibliographic items have blue tape on their spines and are shown in blue on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/templeman\/index.html\">Library maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference material and bibliographies Online reference works Oxford Reference Online: large collection of online reference works which can be searched singly or as a group. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/reference-sources\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56681,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}