Heinemann World Book Online is the a comprehensive online reference encyclopedia. Based on the World Book, the world's number one selling encyclopedia, it provides a wealth of extra features and information, including more than 25,400 articles and 27,500 illustrations, photos and charts, an interactive atlas with over 2,200 maps and a dictionary with over 248,000 definitions. 35% of the content is updated each year.
The World Book Online is available for use both in and outside school. See posters in the reference room or ask Mrs. Roberts for the username and password.
Issues
Online
The online version of the excellent printed series, Issues Online presents detailed information on topics such as cloning, euthanasia, globalization, fitness, drugs, money, censorship and more.
The subscription is only available in school. See Mrs. Roberts for more details.
The library also has a subscription to
Grove
Art and Grove Music Online.
GROVE MUSIC ONLINE
The multi-award winning Grove Music Online is comprised of:
* the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians (2nd edition)
* the 4-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera
* the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition)
Including 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities,
Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on
the Internet, Grove
Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.
GROVE ART
ONLINE
- the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of visual art from prehistory to
the present day
- offers online access to the entire text of the acclaimed 34-volume Dictionary
of Art
- plus a vast range of additional material.
What Grove Art Online offers:
* 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through
the present
* 26 million words covering the fine arts, decorative arts, architecture, sculpture...
* 500,000 bibliographical citations
* 130,000 searchable links and images
* Search using concept, pattern and boolean options across the full text, biographies
and bibliographies
* Browse by headwords, index entries and subjects
You can access Grove Music or Grove Art by going online and using the following codes:
Username: reigategrammar
Password: oxonline