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Oxford Dictionaries - English
This integrated, smart-linked English language resource offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; and specialist guides for legal and technical writing. Tutorial for the Oxford Dictionaries database.
Oxford English Dictionary
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The full text of the classic 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, which provides information on the historical development of the language. View a tutorial on this database here.

Middle English Compenum
The Middle English Compendium is a publication of the University of Michigan Library, the latest embodiment of the University's long-standing involvement in the study of Middle English. The Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and some interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED); a Bibliography of Middle English primary texts, limited to those cited by the MED and based on the MED bibliographies; and a searchable full-text Corpus of Middle English prose and verse.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Articles on literary critics, movements, countries and historical periods enhanced by capabilities found only in an electronic version. Includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries.
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Gale Literary Sources
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Integrates Literature resources from Gale and Literature Criticism Online into a single research environment. Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors Series.

Oxford Reference
Contains more than 300 Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works. Texts are updated after new editions of the print book are published.
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