ONLINE DATABASES from OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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ONLINE DATABASESfromOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

• Pauline Dilworth
• Sales Marketing Executive
• dilwortp_at_oup.co.uk

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What is Oxford Reference Online?

• Oxford University Press reference portal
• A modular service
• First module - The Core Collection
• launched in March 2002
• quick reference module
• more than100 key Oxford dictionaries and
  reference works available in a single
  cross-searchable database for the first time
• The Oxford Companions series will be introduced
  in Autumn 2003

www.oxfordreference.com
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Internet Magazines Site of theYear,2002

• We liked the Sites speed, simplicity, accuracy
  and scope most of all
• Internet Magazine

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The Core Collection

• Over 100 titles (4 metres of shelf space!) - with
  new and revised titles added each quarter
• 20 broad subject areas
• 1.5 million individual entries
• Over 3000 illustrations and diagrams
• Search across the database, or by subject or by
  title
• Browse the database, or by subject or by title
• Lots of options to refine searches and
  cross-reference between entries

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Simple Searching

• To begin at the beginning

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The Oxford Reference Online welcome page
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Move to advanced search
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The search results page
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Results list from the Cross-Reference search
across the database
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• Other approaches

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Static URLs at subject and title level make it
possible to add links from library catalogues and
teaching materials
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Book home page provides full bibliographical
information
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A selection of top-quality and relevant links to
other websites makes it easy to research further
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• Advanced Searching

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The Browser Bar

• and you thought Google was a pretty neat idea?

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Click on a result to move to the entry
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Just one of over 3000 diagrams and illustrations
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What are the benefits?

• Means of providing affordable access to high
  quality and trusted reference resources
• more than100 titles published by the worlds
  most respected reference publisher (Booklist)
• cross-searchable database which is far more than
  the sum of its parts
• Something for everyone
• comprehensive coverage of all subjects from food
  and nutrition to business and computing
• also includes English and bilingual dictionaries,
  thesauri, and dictionaries of quotations

www.oxfordreference.com
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More benefits!

• Making resources go further
• no limit on the number of users that can use the
  service, or titles within it, simultaneously
• by using their ATHENS user name/password, all
  students and staff can access the service off
  campus e.g. from home, from internet cafés etc
• Breaking down the barriers to knowledge
• very user-friendly and intuitive to use so
  minimal training required
• search and browse options to suit all users
• innovative cross-referencing options and web
  look-up facility

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Even more benefits!

• Updated quarterly with new titles and new
  editions
• A Dictionary of Statistics and The Oxford
  Dictionary of Business Spanish are just two of
  the new titles that have been recently added!
• Carefully-researched web links for each title
• Entries can be cut and pasted into other
  applications, printed off and emailed
• Static URLs at subject and title level mean that
  you can link from your library catalogue with
  confidence

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JISC special pricing deal

• Contract period 1 June 2002 - 31 May 2005
• Specially-negotiated prices - far lower than the
  standard list price!
• Subsidy available on the discounted prices
• 50 in year 1
• 20 in year 2
• 10 in year 3
• Subsidised prices start at just 99VAT in
  year 1 for an unlimited user licence and ATHENS
  authentication

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JISC pricing (inclusive of subsidy)
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Free trials available

• Try Oxford Reference Online for free until 31st
  of March
• Go to www.oxfordreference.com
• User name jisc
• Password hertford
• To set up a free network trial - so that all
  your users can try out the service without a user
  name and password - please contact
  onlineproducts_at_oup.co.uk

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Subscribing is easy

• Go to www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/
  oxfordreferenceonline.html
• Send 2 signed copies of the licence agreement to
  JISC and keep 1 copy for your records
• As soon as we receive a copy of the agreement
  from JISC we will set up IP address and ATHENS
  access for your users

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The Oxford English Dictionary Unrivalled breadth
and depth

• Includes definitions of over 600,000 words
• Usage illustrated by over 1.5 million quotations
• Provides a unique historical record of the
  development of English over the last millennium
• Covers words and phrases from across the
  English-speaking world

www.oed.com
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An introductory guide to OED ONLINE...
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Wildcards can be used in all search boxes
represents any number of missing letters
(including 0)
? represents 1 missing letter
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Words to do with music that have come into the
language since 1980?
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Click the NEW button to see the entries in the
New Edition
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Take a crossword clue such as Which word
describes a type of dance and a type of sauce?
Heres how to find out...
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Oxford English Dictionary Online

• The ultimate authority on the English language
  as well as a history of English speech and
  thought from its infancy to the present day The
  Times
• The greatest continuing work of scholarship that
  this century has produced Newsweek
• An essential acquisition for all libraries
  Library Journal

www.oed.com
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An enormous project

• The updating of the OED is the worlds largest
  humanities research project
• editorial work alone costs OUP 3 million per
  year!
• 80 in-house lexicographers, researchers and
  systems engineers working on the project
• 200 specialist advisers
• Numerous external contributors
• At least 6000 new and revised definitions
  published online each year

www.oed.com
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JISC Special Pricing Deal

• New JISC contract period 1 June 2003 - 31 May
  2006
• JISC subsidised prices are according to your
  banding
• A 2,500
• B 2,500
• C 2,500
• D 2,500
• E 2,250
• F 1,875
• G 1,250
• H 750
• I 650
• J 350

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Free trials available

• Try Oxford English Dictionary Online for free
  until 31st of March
• Go to www.oed.com
• User name jisc
• Password hertford
• To set up a free network trial please contact
  onlineproducts_at_oup.co.uk

www.oed.com
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Further information

• Full details about the OED and OED Online are
  available at www.oed.com
• A detailed tour is available at
  www.oed.com/public/tour
• If you have any queries, please dont hesitate to
  contact us at onlineproducts_at_oup.co.uk

www.oed.com