How to subscribe
The Oxford English Dictionary is available by subscription to institutions and individuals.
We are pleased to offer annual individual OED subscriptions for $100 in the US or £100 for the Rest of the World. For this annual rate, you’ll have full unrestricted access to the OED Online – including quarterly updates.
You can also find out more about our Developing Countries Initiative.
How to order
- Individuals: customers outside North and South America
- Individuals: customers in the Americas
- Institutions
Individuals: customers outside North and South America
An individual subscription to the OED Online offers unrestricted access to more than 1,000 years of the English language.
To subscribe online please visit our personal subscription shop.
Details about individual OED subscriptions:
- Available for personal use only.
- Offers a single user name and password that must not be shared. Users must sign in each time they wish to access the service.
- Users can access the service from any computer, providing the correct user name and password are entered.
For complete pricing information or subscription enquiries, please use the contact form.
Individuals: customers in the Americas
An individual subscription to the OED Online offers unrestricted access to more than 1,000 years of the English language.
How to order
To subscribe online please visit our personal subscription shop.
Details about individual OED subscriptions:
- Available for personal use only.
- Offers a single user name and password that must not be shared.
- Users must sign in each time they wish to access the service.
- Users can access the service from any computer, providing the correct user name and password are entered.
- For complete pricing information or subscription enquiries, please use the contact details below.
Love the OED, but can’t commit to a full year subscription? You can also enjoy access to the OED Online on a monthly basis. For a low monthly rate of $29.95, this is great value with no commitment.*
For more information or subscription inquiries, please use the contact form to get in touch.
* Monthly and annual subscriptions are available to individuals by prepaid subscription for personal use only.
Institutions
For information on free trials and pricing
Librarians can contact their local Sales Rep for sales and pricing queries and to discuss their content development needs, or register for a free institutional trial using our online form: within the Americas | outside of the Americas.
If you are a student or academic complete our librarian recommendation form to recommend OED to your librarians for an institutional free trial.