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Dictionaries – LanguageOxford English Dictionary This 20-volume work (2nd ed) can be searched online together with revisions being made for the 3rd ed.(Subscription) A selection of dictionaries published by Cambridges University Press can be searched; also provides links to sites for language teachers and researchers.
An online dictionary and discussion forum for words (many of them slang) used in everyday speech but not yet in dictionaries; includes a dictionary ofabbreviations used in mobile phone text messages and other word tools. Can be used to find definitions or translations of words. An all-in-one reference which provides images, words and definitions. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing theimage it represents. This dictionary from Merriam-Webster helps you learn English in a visual and accessible way. Provides access to more than 1 800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages; its predecessor (A Web of Online Dictionaries), was launched in 1995 by Dr. RobertBeard at Bucknell University as a research tool for the world’s linguistic community but it is now a commercial venture. Webster’s Online Dictionary Contains at least 3,000,000 words and expressions from 90 modern and 10 ancient languages Translates words in French, Spanish and Italian. Beware of pop-ups! Dictionaries – SubjectFoldoc Dictionary of computing with over 13000 definitions and acronyms; and anything else to do with computing. Begun in 1985, it is edited by Denis Howe. Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS) Alphabetical browsing supported in this dictionary compiled by Joan M. Reitz. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles from the earliest times to the year 2002. (Subscription) Describes itself as “an online dictionary and search engine for Internet technology definitions”. EncyclopaediasBlackwell encyclopedia of Sociology Volunteers throughout the world are building an online version of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia; they contribute by locating a copy of the work, transcribing anarticle, and sending it via e-mail for publication on this website. Articles on different subjects, Britannica’s World Atlas, Timelines and Year-in-Review as well as Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Encyclopedia offering over 57,000 articles from the the Columbia Encyclopedia’s 6th edition; frequently updated by HighBeam Research. Beware of pop-ups! An encyclopedia encompassing breadth and depth—breadth of disciplines, philosophical paradigms, and geographic situatedness of case studies, and depth ofexperience, knowledge, and insight into case study research— Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology A search engine and interface which allows you to retrieve information covering the entire chemical industry and allied fields. (Subscription) Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of literature Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer science and engineering The free encyclopedia you can edit. Free e-Book CollectionsProvides a range of information resources. Registration is necessary and the username and password e-mailed to those who register must be used in order to accessthe digital library resources. The content of the African Digital Library is available at the Netlibrary. Heinemann’s African Writers Series publishes texts of modern African literature. This electronic edition provides 181 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera,Christopher Okigbo, Okot p’Bitek and Tayeb Salih. Maintained by Matthew McClintock, this site provides many e-books from Project Gutenberg Gender Mainstreaming in HIV-AIDS This report contains the presentations delivered at the Satelite session on Gender Mainstreaming, 7th AIDS impactconference, Cape Town, April 2005 Knovel chemistry, mathematics and physics books Full-text of the following titles is available in pdf format: Essential practices for managing chemical reactivity hazards; Handbook of mathematical functionswith formulas, graphs and mathematical tables; International critical tables of numerical data, physics, chemistry and technology; Knovel critical tables; Smithsonianphysical tables, 9th edition. Provides access to full-text e-books in a range of subjects including chemistry, physics, education, engineering and the sciences. The site provides access to the full-text of nearly 5,000 reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction as well as nearly 3,500 publiclyaccessible titles. Subscribed content is listed in the library OPAC. Results of searches in the SACat database via SABINET Online often give links to e-books availablethrough NetLibrary. Project Gutenberg Includes the texts of books that are out ofcopyright, most of them published before 1923, chosen and formatted by volunteers. British Library Project making rare books in its collection availableonline. Maps and Route PlannersLocal route planner with maps PatentsUnited States Patent and Trademark Office provides access to issued US Patents since 1790 and Patent Applications published since 15 March 2001. Patents issued from 1790-1975 are searchable only by patentnumber and current US classifications but from 1976 onwards the full-text of patents is fully searchable. provides access to Europe’s network of patent databases with much of the data dating back to 1970. Search resultsdisplay bibliographic data, an English-language abstract and if available, drawings and the full-text of the documents. Images of documents are available back to 1920for the most important countries. Reference WorksThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa all related to developments inone calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on majorcross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. Unlimited access to a range of reference works including encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations and Roget’s thesaurus Contains over 25,000 biographies, at least some of which are very brief. Beware of pop-ups! Digital History: a guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the web This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians, teachers. students, archivists, museum curators, professors and amateur enthusiastswho wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the project Encyclopedia of Case Study research An encyclopedia encompassing breadth and depth—breadth of disciplines, philosophical paradigms, and geographic situatedness of case studies, and depth ofexperience, knowledge, and insight into case study research— Europe in Figures: eurostat yearbook2008 Presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on the European Union, its Member States and candidatecountries. Grove Music Online Comprises the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), TheNew Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).(Subscription) ISQua Accreditations Toolkit PDF copy of “Some issues in the design and redesign of external health care assessment and improvement systems” by Charles D Shaw, 2004 compiled by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in collaboration with experts from stakeholder institutions examines opportunities for the production of data,digital content, digital collections, institutional and subject repositories, digital libraries and archives South African Institute of Race Relations The Institute is an independent think-tank producing research, policy critiques, and risk analysis on South Africa. Our fields of expertise include the economy,business, labour, education, demographics, living conditions, crime, security, healthcare, land reform, service delivery, politics, and government affairs. XE.com The Universal Currency Converter Performs currency conversions Medical WorksAnatomy text book, with explanatory diagrams. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine 16th edition Edited by DL Kasper, et al, this edition is in 16 parts and includes appendices. (Subscription) Merck Manual of Medical Information, 2nd home ed. Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they’re diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; alsoprovides information about prognosis. Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th ed Provides useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in aconcise, complete, and accurate manner. Covers all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry,obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects. Merck Manual of Geriatrics, 3rd ed Comprehensive text book on geriatric care and disorders. Pocket book of Hospital Care for Children: guidelines for the management ofcommon illnesses with limited resources This is a pocket-sized manual for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible forthe care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. MDConsult Full-text Textbooks Subscribed content includes these titles : Abeloff: Clinical Oncology Adkinson: Middleton Allergy: Principles and Practice Auerbach: Wilderness Medicine Behrman: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics Braunwald: Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine Brenner: Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney Browner: Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction Canale: Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics Cheng-Zaas: The Osler Medical Handbook Cohen and Powderly: Infectious Diseases Cummings et al: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery DeLee: DeLee and Drez’s Orthopaedic Sports Medicine; Duthie: Practice of Geriatrics Feldman: Sleisenger & Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Ferri: Ferri Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Ferri: Ferri’s Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment Ferri: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient Frontera: Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Ford: Clinical Toxicology Gabbe: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies Gershon: Klugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology Goldberger: Clinical Electrocardiography Goldman: Cecil Textbook of Medicine Grainger: Grainger & Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology Green: Skeletal Trauma in Children Habif: Clinical Dermatology: Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy Harris: Kelley’s Textbook of Rheumatology; Hoffman: Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice Jacobson: Psychiatric Secrets Johns Hopkins: The Harriet Lane Handbook Kumar: Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease Larsen: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology Long: Principles and Practices of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Mandell: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases Marx: Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice Miller: Anesthesia Moore & Jefferson: Handbook of Medical Psychiatry Murray & Nadel: Textbook of Respiratory Medicine Noble: Textbook of Primary Care Medicine Park: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy Rakel: Textbook of Family Practice Rakel: Integrative Medicine Roberts: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine Stenchever: Comprehensive Gynecology Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery Yanoff: Ophthalmology Walsh: Campbell’s Urology February 2015 |