Oxford Reference Library, the scholarly portion of ORO, helps you to research a term, concept, or person with longer articles and essays.

• Pick and mix from over 180 in-depth and specialist titles from Oxford’s award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, and a critical selection of partner publishers’ specialist scholarly works
• Delve deeper into a subject, furthering your research needs
• New titles added and available for purchase throughout the year
• Available for purchase by institutions on a title-by-title basis

The Hekman Library owns 38 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries in this collection. (Click on the link and then click "more information" next to Oxford Reference Online to see individual titles).