As part of The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival there is free access this week to both the full Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The TimesOnline Sunday Times Literary Festival page is at: www.timesonline.co.uk/oxfordlitfestival from where links to the OED and DNB Online search screens can be picked up from the section titled 'OED ONLINE OFFER' a few inches down the page. Note that your browser security issues such as not accepting cookies, etc may need to be modified for access. Otherwise you may see a Subscriber Login screen . . . Cheers, John