Encyclopaedias

• Encyclopaedia Britannica online - the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica on your desktop! Thousands of articles and illustrations plus many additional features: specially reviewed web sites, video and sound clips, full text magazine articles, an atlas, timelines and more....

• At Credo reference you can search and browse online 'Philip's encyclopedia', the 'Crystal reference encyclopedia' and the 'Hutchinson unabridged encyclopedia including atlas', as well as encyclopaedias on individual subjects

• Oxford reference online includes the general Philip's 'World encyclopedia' and specialist titles such as the 'Encyclopedia of underwater life', the 'New encyclopedia of birds' and the 'Encyclopedia of mammals'. The 'Oxford companions...' series of books also give encyclopaedic coverage on individual subjects, for example '...English literature, '...British history', '...Western art' and many more

• See Art and Design and Music for details of the art and music encyclopaedias in Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online

• WebLinks links you to useful encyclopaedia and fact-finding web sites
• You can still browse printed encyclopaedias and similar books in the libraries  - see Encyclopaedias and miscellaneous facts at Bedfordshire libraries

Further information

• Library catalogue
• Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians
• 'Enquire' - a 24-hour chat enquiry service from the national People's Network. Local librarians take part in 'Enquire' on a rota basis but it is likely that you would be answered by a librarian from another library service

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