Oxford Reference Online
Did you know that the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection is regularly updated. Recent updates of interest to English students would be the addition of:
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain 3rd ed., and
Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage 2nd ed.
In all, this database has 19 authoritative reference books on Literature alone, including:
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, and
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
It also includes reference sources for Mythology and Folklore in addition to numerous Dictionaries and Thesauri and so is a very useful database to keep open while you carry out online research or draft essays.
Access to Oxford Reference Online is available through Portia in the usual way.
