This presentation gives a brief description of Oxford Scholarship Online

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• This presentation gives a brief description of
  Oxford Scholarship Online
• It tells you
• what Oxford Scholarship Online is,
• how it can help you,
• how to look for information in it.
• The presentation will take about 4 minutes.

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Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly
expanding cross-searchable library which now
offers quick and easy access to the full text of
over 2,500 Oxford books in 16 subject modules.

• The subject modules are
• Biology
• Business and Management
• Classical Studies
• Economics and Finance
• History
• Law
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Mathematics
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Physics
• Psychology
• Religion
• Social Work

The 2,500 books in Oxford Scholarship Online
would take up around 60 metres of shelf space!
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To search for a particular topic, use the Quick
Search box at the top left.
This will search across all subjects.
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As a default, results are ordered by relevance.
Click on publication date to change the order.
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If you scroll down the list, you will see that
results from several different subjects are
included.
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The results point directly to the relevant
chapter from each book.
An abstract from each chapter is available, even
if you do not have a subscription to that subject.
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The Open URL feature means that you can look for
a physical copy of the book in your librarys
holdings.
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If you have a subscription to the subject
(religion in this case), you can see the full
text.
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The link goes to the relevant part of the page.
If you scroll up the page
you can print the page and find the citation
information.
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You can also browse the content by subject area.
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Further help

• If you want to find out more, you can
• see the detailed user guides on the sites
  themselves
• email us at onlinemarketing_at_oup.com

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• Oxford Islamic Studies Online
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• Electronic Enlightenment
• the African American Studies Center
• Click here to open these presentations

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