OXFORD

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OXFORD
Scholarship Online
a must-have online resource Library Journals
netConnect

• John Campbell, Online Project Manager
• Academic Division

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What is Oxford Scholarship Online?

• A 175-million word online database containing
  over 1,350 of the research-level books from OUP,
  with at least 200 new books added every year (450
  from September)
• Four research-level subject modules - Philosophy,
  Economics and Finance, Religion, Political
  Science, expanding to 13 in September 2007
• Free world-wide access to valuable non-subscriber
  content

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What is Oxford Scholarship Online?

• OUPs largest single online project outside
  Journals
• 280 institutional customers in 35 countries
  including national and regional consortia
• 175,000,000 words
• 30,000 figures
• 70,000 MathML equations
• 15,000 abstracts and 100,000 keywords
• 3 updates per year

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Why? Re-inventing the Scholarly Book

• Furthering the dissemination of knowledge
• Addressing the change in usage of the traditional
  monograph. Not all the best research is in
  journals
• Taking a risk - will front-list sales be
  affected?
• Publishing more content with a unique means of
  distribution
• Over 1,000 Oxford authors have opted-in to shape
  the future

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How? An Innovative Business Model

• Get away from the static e-book model. Why
  replicate the
• status quo online?
• Listen to our institutional customers. Three
  access models
• Unlimited campus-wide access, plus remote user
  access
• Concurrent-user licence
• Perpetual access a flexible purchase
  modelAnnual subscription gives access to all
  content, plus over 400 new books each year

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How? From Manuscript to Online
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How? Key Features...

• Unique newly-commissioned abstracts and keywords
  for each book and chapter - available both in OSO
  and other online sites (IngentaConnect, OCLC
  WorldCat with more to come)
• A book first reference linking to and from other
  online resources, including OpenURL, DOI deposit,
  and MARC21 records
• Enabling the linking of scholarly book chapters
  and segments to online course materials

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...Key Features

• Full-text HTML generated from an advanced XML
  database, driving typesetting innovation
• Fully cross-searchable, not just stand-alone
  e-books
• Printing of individual pages and chapters
  enabled. Flexible rights model
• Lets take a look

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Result? Getting the Book off the Shelf

• Helping students and scholars find the best
  research-level content online, right alongside
  journals
• book content searchable in the same places as
  journal content
• abstracts and keywords aid discovery in other
  resources
• Helping librarians and teachers improve access to
  the content of scholarly monographs
• teachers can direct students to recommended
  chapters and books

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The Unfolding Story

• 6 million page requests since launch. Viewing
  either free abstracts and keywords or
  subscriber-only full-text pages
• OSO core market is students and scholars in
  premier institutions with large research
  libraries - but we are now also reaching markets
  which have never traditionally bought monographs
  UK FE, British Council, Slovakia, Russia, India,
  Kazakhstan,Ghana
• Innovation is integral to the future with
  ever-increasing depth, subject range, access
  models, future partnerships