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Oxford University Press –
electronic resources for academic, public and National
Libraries
Adina Teusan, Regional Sales Manager, Eastern Europe
St Petersburg, March 2011
Why Online Databases?
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Instant access in any location for users who are members of the
library
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No shelf space required
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Additional content added throughout the year without a further
cost
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Discounts available for libraries purchasing together as a group
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More than one user accessing a title at the same time
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Oxford University Press online resources
Stability: OUP is part of the University of Oxford and has its
beginnings in the 16th century print revolution
Reliability: most of our published content is peer-reviewed and
approved by a Board of Trustees
Prestige: OUP publishes some of the greatest academic names
today
Pioneering: first online Journals collections published in 1996
and first online dictionary published in 2000. Content previously
published in print is now available online. One resource is only
available online: Oxford Bibliographies Online
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List of OUP online products by category
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New in 2011
University Presses Scholarship Online (UPSO) – pilot
launched in March 2011 with content from Fordham University
Press (133 online books in History, Philosophy and Religion)
www.fordhamscholarship.com – the same platform as Oxford
Scholarship Online and fully cross-searchable with Oxford
University Press books
Infectious Diseases Society of America – 2 prestigious
Journals now available through Oxford University Press Journals
collections
Further development of medical platform
www.oxfordmedicine.com – 4 new textbooks available online
from April 2011 in addition to existing content: Oxford Medical
Handbooks Online (79 titles), Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 3
Textbooks from European Society of Cardiology
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SCHOLARLY
1. Oxford Scholarship Online
Academic Monographs
Collections of online books in 18 subject
areas available for purchase or subscription
2. Oxford Handbooks Online
Academic Guides to a Discipline
Collections of online books in 4 subject
areas available for purchase or subscription
3. Oxford Journals
Oxford Scholarship Online
18 subjects:
Humanities, social sciences & science
•Full text monographs
•The very latest titles published online at same time as print
•OUP have an excellent reputation for monograph publishing
•4,000+ high quality works
•PDF chapter down-load available, full usage statistics (COUNTER)
Academic Monographs
Monographs are the work of usually a single author. The academic level is similar
to a journal article. The monograph offers a detailed insight into one specific area
of study.
Social Science:
Business & Management
Classical Studies
Economics & Finance
History
Linguistics
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion
Law
Social Work
Science & Medicine:
Biology
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Physics
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Oxford Handbooks Online
Business/Management
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion
•Essential guides to current debates
•Each title contains essays by approx 20 different leading scholars
who are experts in their field
•Each title covers a corner of a discipline
•Taken together you have a complete overview of the current state
of a discipline
•2,700 essays in 83+ titles
Link to other key titles in
Oxford Handbooks or
Oxford Scholarship
Online or Oxford Journals
DICTIONARIES
1. Oxford English Dictionary Online
Historical & Comprehensive
2. Oxford Dictionaries Online
Current English
The full text of the 20 volume OED
Combined with the Historical Thesaurus
of English; gives a semantic index to the
whole OED
The most complete dictionary of English
in the world
Words from 1150AD to present
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ART & MUSIC
1. Grove Art Online
European Art
International Art
Contemporary Art
All periods covered
2. Grove Music Online
Classical Music
Jazz, Opera & World Music
International music
All periods covered
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Contents of Grove Music Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (29 volumes)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Oxford Companion to Music & Oxford Dictionary of Music
Sibelius-enabled musical examples of music
55,000 reference articles
The most complete academic coverage of Western & World Music
The only online available complete Works Lists for composers
MORE CONTENT THAN IN PRINT – UPDATED 3 TIMES A YEAR
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REFERENCE
1. Oxford Reference Online
language and subject reference works
into a single cross-searchable resource
2. Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
over 50 Encyclopedias in History and
Culture, Literature and Language, Arts,
Science, Social Sciences, Law
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Contents of Oxford Reference Online
217 reference titles – from Art to Zoology
Companions, encyclopedias, dictionaries
16,000 illustrations
47 timelines (only online)
36,000+ bibliographies
167,000+ biographical entries
New titles and editions added regularly: recent ones include
Guide to Latin in International Law, A Dictionary of English
Manuscript Terminology, Oxford Companion to Consciousness
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Online content from OUP
Scholarly resources: e-book collections and Journals
Prestigious dictionaries: the most comprehensive dictionary of
the English language as well as bilingual dictionaries (including
English – Russian – English)
Law and Medicine databases
Reference works online
All available by annual subscription, access by IP address, no
extra charge for remote access
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Adina Teusan
Regional Library Sales Manager, Online and Journals
Oxford University Press
[email protected]
www.oup.com/online and www.oxfordjournals.org
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