Hi Everyone, I’d imagine that you have all used Wikipedia at some stage. You probably also realise that many of your lecturers and tutors prefer that you don’t reference Wikipedia in your essays.

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Oxford reference online premium collection and Gale virtual reference library are excellent scholarly alternatives to Wikipedia and both are easily accessible via the Library’s Databases web page.