Online reference sources
Online reference sources
We subscribe to a wide variety of online reference sources and you don't even need to be in a library to use most of them! All you need is your eight-digit library card number to login.
These sites are accessible free of charge for Salford library members from any computer connected to the Internet. Ancestry.com is only free from library computers.
For access to Encyclopedia Britannica Online, please select from the following links:
- For ages 5 to 11
- For ages 12 to 18
- For ages 18 and over
For the Oxford and Grove sites please type SAL in front of your eight-digit library card number into the login box (eg SAL00123456).
- Oxford Reference Online contains over 130 subject dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, a thesaurus, quotations and an encyclopedia.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online is the definitive online dictionary, giving the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains 55,000 biographies of people who have shaped the history of the British Isles.
For KnowUK and NewsUK please type your eight-digit library card number into the login box (eg 00123456), then select Salford City Council from the drop down list.
- KnowUK collects information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK, and you can search all of them at the same time.
- NewsUK collects content from 68 national and regional newspapers, and also contains articles from magazines and journals.
- Ancestry.com contains invaluable information if you are researching your family history. If you are using a library computer you have free access to the site, but you'll need your own subscription to use the site from your home computer.
There are computers for public use in all Salford libraries.
This page was last updated on 25 March 2011
