The Oxford DNB was first published in 2004 in print (60 vols.). Since 2005 regular updates have extended the Dictionary’s coverage, now including biographies of more than 60,000 men and women who died in or before the year 2016—plus 536 ‘Theme’ articles for reference and research.
The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.
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The ebook are searchable from OneSearchUnipi and accessible online. Individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format. Most recent titles are also available in EPUB format.
Electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), that is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
The new OED Online offers many tasters and routes into the dictionary’s 600,000 words and 3 million quotations.
In addition to its quarterly updates of revised entries and new words, the OED Online includes regular commentaries on the language, written by dictionary editors and specialist authors.
