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New for May 2008: The latest update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection includes a wealth of new and updated science-based content ranging from nursing to cosmology, plus a host of new and updated entries on literary terms.
The new, long-entry title is The Oxford Companion to Cosmology, by Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday, a comprehensive but accessible overview of the structure of the universe, including detailed information on cold dark matter, galaxy clusters, the evolution of galaxies, alternative cosmologies, redshift surveys, and cosmic microwave background radiation.
Subscribers also benefit from the new and updated content in five new editions — A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Earth Sciences, A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Chemistry, and The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. All these new editions have carefully selected entry-level web links to guide you to the best of the rest of the web.
In addition, there is a new Victorian Britain Timeline, a chronology of the 64 years of the rule of Queen Victoria, together with links to related entries in the Premium Collection.
Also part of this update are over 50,000 links between biographical entries in the Premium Collection and to entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the American National Biography, Grove Music Online, and Grove Art Online* — that's virtually every linkable biographical entry. Browsing and exploring people included in the Premium Collection is now even easier and more satisfying — seen through all their different contexts, the wealth of biographical content on offer can now be truly appreciated.
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