Welcome to the Oxford Scholarship Online Demonstrator

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Welcome to the Oxford Scholarship Online
Demonstrator

• This demonstration will introduce you to Oxford
  Scholarship
• Online and walk you through the key features of
  OSO
• Introduction
• Finding a book in OSO
• Viewing a book in OSO
• Linking to other online resources from OSO
• Finding an OSO book from other online resources
• Using OSO for research
• Using OSO for teaching

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Introduction to Oxford Scholarship Online

• OSO has been designed to aid research and
  teaching by
• providing full online access to a core of some of
  the most
• important books in the humanities and social
  sciences
• OSO is launching in Autumn 2003 with 750 books in
  four
• disciplines

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Key features

• 750 key scholarly books selected from OUPs
  extensive backlist in Philosophy, Religion,
  Political Science, and Economics and Finance (see
  website below for full title listing)
• 200 new books added from frontlist each year
• Full text of all books fully searchable within
  each title and across all titles and subjects
• Search and discovery aids for key content,
  including abstracts and keywords for each book
  and each chapter

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Finding a book in OSO

• OSO books can be found in a number of ways within
  the
• OSO site
• Search by discipline and sub-discipline for a
  list of
• books
• Search by title
• Search by author
• Search by keyword or abstract

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• Search by full text
• Search by other bibliographic criteria e.g. date
  of
• publication
• The following screens demonstrate some of these
  search
• options using examples from OSO Religion and OSO
  Philosophy
• search by author (author index)
• search by keyword (with results following)

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Search by Author
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Search by Keyword
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Search by Keyword - Results
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Viewing a book in OSO

• Books in OSO can be viewed as a whole book,
  selected
• chapter by chapter, or simply as a page
  containing the
• search terms you may have used
• The next four slides will show you
• Overview of a book in OSO
• View of a chapter in OSO
• Treatment of footnotes, bibliographies, and
• references

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Table of Contents View
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Table of Contents View With Chapter Abstracts
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Full-Text Chapter View
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Figure Footnote Display
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Linking to other online resources from OSO

• A key feature of OSO is the ability to move from
  OSO
• references to other online resources - for
  example, online
• journals or online reference works
• Live links from footnotes and bibliographies will
  connect
• the user to cited works that are available
  online.
• provided the user has a subscription

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Reference Linking

• Another important feature of OSO is that online
  resources
• from other publishers will be checked every month
  for new
• online links, so that as new material is
  published online
• more and more links will be available from
  references in OSO
• The following two screens show how a link from a
• bibliography would work

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Linking From a Bibliography
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Finding an OSO book from a different online
resource

• OSO bibliographic data, as well as abstracts and
  keywords
• for each book and chapter, will be available free
  of charge,
• both from the OSO public site and from online
  journals
• and other online material
• Links to OSO books will be available from
  subscribing
• libraries online catalogues

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• OSO abstracts and keywords will be available in a
  wide
• range of online resources - especially
  aggregations of
• journals such as Ingenta Journals or Proquest
• The next screens show how an OSO book might be
• discovered through a search on the Ingenta
  Journals site

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Linking to OSO Table of Contents View
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Using OSO for research

• OSO will aid scholarly research by providing
  online
• access to key works of scholarship
• Abstracts and keywords will ensure that results
  from
• searching are relevant and precise
• Following links from OSO to other online
• material will make research easier and quicker
• Scholars needs - such as accurate citations for
  online
• material - are provided for
• provided the user has a subscription

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Using OSO for teaching

• OSO will be available to subscribing institutions
  on a
• multi-user, institution-wide basis, with access
  enabled
• for remote users
• Lecturers will be able to provide links to OSO
  books and
• chapters in their online reading lists and course
  material
• that all students can use

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Using OSO for teaching

• It will be more convenient for students to read
• recommended monographs and chapters when they
• are available online
• There will be open access to books which had
  previously
• been available only through the library

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• Thank you. Please contact a member of the OSO
  team if you would
• like more information

Free trials available to institutions Librarians
and central electronic resource co-ordinators can
register now Institutions within North and South
America onlinesubscriptions_at_oup-usa.org Instituti
ons outside North and South America onlineproduct
s_at_oup.com Authors contact Susan Weavers at
susan.weavers_at_oup.com Press and media contact
Kate Jury at kate.jury_at_oup.com