Add the Oxford English Dictionary to Your Browser

Posted on by Sarah Witte

With the Oxford English Dictionary on your browser, checking a definition can be as easy as highlighting and clicking.

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Installation instructions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Netscape are available here: http://www.oed.com/services/browser-button.html

See the Libraries’ Tools & Widgets page for more resources to streamline your research.

2 thoughts on “Add the Oxford English Dictionary to Your Browser”

  1. Alas, this does not work for off campus users. But if instead of:

    javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Please%20enter%20a%20term%20to%
    20search%20OED%20Online.
    \nYou%20may%20also%20highlight%20a%20word%20on%20a%20
    page%20before%
    20clicking%20the%20button.',''));if(q)location.href='
    http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword='+escape(q)

    you use this:

    javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Please%20enter%20a%20term%20to%
    20search%20OED%20Online.
    \nYou%20may%20also%20highlight%20a%20word%20on%20a%20page%20before%20
    clicking%20the%20button.',''));
    if(q)location.href='
    http://dictionary.oed.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword='+escape(q)

    it will be. Seems like it might be worth moving this to a local page where it can be modified to include the proxy server.

    /breck

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