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The Oxford English Dictionary has relaunched OED Online with a new look and feel. The site not only contains new content but new features and functionality.



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Go Mobile again!!

Cambridge Journals Online has joined other resources in providing a mobile friendly version of it's services. CJOm has been optimised for smartphones and other mobile devices.

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It's only rock and roll...

Get access to thousands of classic articles by rock's finest writers spanning 50 years of music journalism.

Who said "You know the odds of us landing in a fight before the night’s over are about even...” ? - find out using Rock's Backpages.

Rock's Backpages is accessible to you as a member of LJMU, find it on the Database A-Z - please note that this is an on campus only resource.

Proquest Databases

Proquest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Sunday 31 October 2010 from 2am for a period of 12 hours. During this time the following services will be unavailable

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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L&SS apologise for any inconvenience this may cause

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library will be unavailable on Saturday 30 October 2010 between 9am and 12 noon in order for essential work to be completed.

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes the visible" - Paul Klee

Don’t suffer for your art...

Grove Art Online is the ultimate source of information on all aspects of art! From mosaics to multimedia, from performance art to printmaking, and from Tracey Emin to J.M.W. Turner,
Grove Art Online can tell you everything you need to know about visual art worldwide. Illustrated with over 5,000 images, Grove Art Online lets you see the works of art, as well as read about the people and processes involved in creating them.

Free online access through this library, any time, any where: Select Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from the Databases A-Z