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Oxford Reference Online
Oxford University Press
Oxford
URL: http://www.OxfordReference.com
2002
Price: $375-$2,995 per annum, depending on the size of the Institution and any special rates applied. Different rates are also available for secondary schools and individuals.
Last visited August 2002
Keywords Language, Terminology
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310455777
Oxford is a well-respected name when it comes to reference works. The publisher's latest Web-based product, Oxford Reference Online (ORO), is an attempt to road test the applicability of these resources in an online environment. Students will no longer have to run to the shelves to consult a specialized dictionary. Instead, they can now do a search across more than 150 reference sources at once, pulling up definitions, short articles, and quotations from general sources such as The Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations and The Concise Oxford Dictionary, as well as more specialized sources such as A Dictionary of Computing and A Dictionary of the Bible. The Web is definitely the appropriate vehicle for delivering this kind of information, and Oxford delivers a wonderful package with quick search results that make the information easily accessible and fun to explore.
The many features of ORO add up to...