The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. 

Oxford Handbooks Online is a collection of scholarly research reviews across many different subject areas. Each handbook evaluates current thinking on a topic and makes an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

An online version of Richard Taruskin’s 5 volume reference work on the evolution of Western classical music. The full text from the 2009 edition has been reproduced including notes, bibliographies, further readings, illustrations and musical examples. Vol I: Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century Vol II: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Vol III: Nineteenth Century Vol IV: Early Twentieth Century Vol V: Late Twentieth Century.

Oxford Music Online offers access to multiple music reference resources including Grove Music Online; The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011) which offers articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and the Oxford Dictionary of Music 2nd edition (revised 2006) which supplements Grove's more extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users.

An authoritative and comprehensive reference collection combining access to in-depth scholarly resources in the Oxford Companions series with quick reference coverage from key Oxford dictionaries and reference works.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health is part of the larger online Oxford Research Encyclopedia, a dynamic digital encyclopedia continuously updated by the world’s leading scholars and researchers.

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguisticscombines the speed & flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Literature features a large and growing collection of in-depth articles across the full range of topics in contemporary literary studies, including sections on all the major literary forms, historical periods and geographical groupings, as well sections on Cultural Studies; Film, TV, and Media; Literary Theory; Non-Fiction and Life Writing; and Print Culture and Digital Humanities.

Contains full-text, online editions of Oxford University Press’ (OUP) key international law texts, and includes authoritative treatises, black-letter reference works and commentaries; classic works on international law, and flagship publications. Fully searchable by subject matter, title and author, and linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of OUP online law products. 

Full text access to academic texts by economists, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists and historians as well as business academics.

The resource includes titles from some of Oxford's key series, including: Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series.

Access to original work across all areas of contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy. The collection features recent books, accompanied by some classics from the 1960's to the 1980's, and covers areas such as aesthetics, ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, logic/philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics/epistemology.

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ONLINE offers over 500 volumes from the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies including history, cultural studies, literature, biography, religious studies, philosophy, and gender studies. The ebook collection offers a complete archive of all content published in the series between 1955-2016