Note from Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems:
The University Library is pleased to announced that it has arranged for access to be made available to the newly-published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online within the ‘cam.ac.uk’ domain on a trial basis, pending the establishment of a subscription service. The service is available at http://www.oxforddnb.com. Passwords are not required at this stage.
The Oxford DNB is the largest reference project ever undertaken in the humanities, including 50,000 biographies and 10,000 illustrations, and represents the work of over 10,000 specialists worldwide.