Oxford Scholarship Online Lund Online, 18 th October 2007, Lund Sweden Adina Teusan, OUP Online Sales Executive – Scandinavia

Oxford University Press 2005

What is Oxford Scholarship Online? What does Oxford Scholarship Online offer users? FAQs

What is Oxford Scholarship Online? Vast online research library 1,800 research-level academic monographs from US and UK 13 subject areas 400 new books added each year in 3 updates, 90% front list books OUP’s largest single online project outside OUP Journals

Important dates in the life of OSO Launched in 2003 as a subscription database of 4 modules Expanded to a perpetual access purchase model in 2005 Increased usage by 450% 2003 to 2005 Expanded by 9 modules in late 2007 From 2007, OUP will publish the majority of OUP monographs simultaneously in print and online

Subject Collections at launch Economics and Finance Philosophy Political Science Religion Subject Collections added late 2007 Biology Business and Management Classical Studies History Linguistics Literature Mathematics Physics Psychology

Finding your way around Top Navigation Bar Left Navigation Bar Book Header/Table of contents page Subject sub- discipline index

Remember : the information is organised by firstly, subject and subject subdivison, and secondly, by book (title and author).

Searching : Common rules that apply to both quick and advanced search: Free terms Variant forms Phrases Case Sensitivity Wildcard Boolean Operators Stop Words

Books: using the full text Book: main page -Title and bibliographic information -Book jacket image -Abstract and keywords at book and chapter level -A table of contents with clickable links to each chapter

Books: using the full text -Pages Screen vs Book -Abstract and Keywords -Footnotes -Bibliography -Cross-references

Pagination Footnotes Bibliography

Cross- reference tool

Using texts beyond the OSO site - ing -Citing titles -Printing

ing Citing Printing

Benefits for research: -DOIs – ideal references for course packs and reading lists -Over 350 bibliographic links to external online content

And more…… MARC 21 records Remote access OpenURL compliance COUNTER compliance (from end of November 2007) Access by meta search software

Subscriber services: -Free online access to monthly usage reports -Fast and personalised technical and sales support -Training tutorials available -On screen help, guided tour and FAQs available

FAQs Can we print text from OSO? Is OSO available for annual subscription and/or for perpetual access? I would like to see a book available on OSO. Can I send suggestions?

Conclusion Don’t forget that: OSO is a vast and quickly-expanding research library It has powerful searching facilities It is available for subscription and purchase

THANK YOU!! For more details please contact: Adina Teusan Tel: + 44 (0)