Transcript Philosophy Specific Resources

E- Books
Hilla Wait
Colin Cook
Philosophy Faculty Library
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Workshop aims
 To understand the value of e-books for teaching
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and research
To understand their limitations
To survey sources of e-books
To focus on Oxford’s subscriptions to e-books
To learn to use:
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Past Masters
Oxford Scholarship OnLine
Taylor&Francis e-Books Library
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What are they for?
 24/7 access for multiple users
 Substitutes for antiquarian texts
 Linking to reading lists
 Full-text searching
 Accessability
 Portability
 Reformatting and compilation
 Limitations
 Beware plagiarism
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Electronic Texts
 Electronic Journals
 Electronic Reference Sources
 Electronic Primary Texts
 Electronic Secondary Texts
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Free E-Books
 Google BookSearch
http://books.google.com/
 Googlescholar
http://scholar.google.com/
 Publishers’ sample pages
http://www.cambridge.org/uk
/browse/browse_samples.as
p?subjectid=1009106
 Internet searches,
 Basic scanned texts
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Electronic Primary Texts
 Past Masters (English, Modern
Languages, Philosophy, Theology)
 Perseus (Classics)
 Wittgenstein Nachlaß
 Early English Books Online
 Eighteenth Century
Collections Online
 LION (Literature Online)
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Electronic Secondary Texts
 Oxford Scholarship OnLine
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Philosophy, Religion, Economics, Political Science
 Taylor & Francis/Routledge On-Line E-Books
Library
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English, History,
Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology, Classics
 Theology Digital Library (TDL)
http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/library/dig_index.phtml
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How do we find them?
 OxLIP (links to package)
 URL (links to package)
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http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/Home/html/index.asp
 http://library.nlx.com/
 http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/
 OLIS links
 Reading List links (PPE General
Philosophy Prelims)
 Athens password
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
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Past Masters: getting started
 Complete list
 Expand to individual
author
 Expand to individual
title
 Open any chapter,
no time or user limit
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Past Masters: navigating
 Screen layout
 Using the Table of Contents
 Changing the display
 Open any chapter, no time or user limit
 Changing chapter or title
 Changing database
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Past Masters: searching
 Searching by simple search
 Cross database searching
 Proximity search
 Formatting, copying and printing
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Oxford Scholarship OnLine:
getting started
 Complete list
 Search for a title or
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author
Abstract and TOC
Open any chapter,
no time or user limit
Navigating
Formatting, copying
and printing
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Oxford Scholarship OnLine:
subject searching
 Quick Search
 Searching within a single text
 Advanced Search
 Searching by keyword
 Cross-referencing/Design a search
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge :
getting started
 Logging in
 Complete list
 Search for an
individual title
 Look at the abstract
 Reservations
 Open the book using
the DX-Reader
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge:
Navigating
 Moving around
 Highlighting,
marking, annotating
text
 Formatting, copying
and printing
 Using the Research
Notebook
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge :
searching
 Searching within a book
 Searching by keyword
 Searching the full-text content
 Logging out
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Looking to the future
 Monitoring usage
 Feedback from users
 Feedback to
suppliers
 New acquisitions
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Extra Past Masters
texts
Ebrary
Netlibrary
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And finally
 User guides and on-line tutorials
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http://www.nlx.com/tutorials/PastMastersD
emo_viewlet_swf.html
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/publ
ic/tour/tour_start.html
http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/home/html/help
.asp?category=SB150000
 Exercises
 Feedback to hilla.wait@philosophy
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