Oxford University Press is the world's
largest university press, and has an international reputation for
the quality and diversity of its publishing
programme.
Oxford is a major provider of online
information to libraries and individuals worldwide. OUP acclaimed
resources include:
- Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
- Oxford Reference Online
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Oxford English Dictionary
Online
- Grove Art Online
- Grove Music Online
- American National Biography
Online
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography:
Explore the lives of over 55,000 people
worldwide who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400
years – from the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas to
Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the
Nawabs of Bengal.
Over 55,000 biographies, 63 million words,
10,000 portrait illustrations – now available online, and in a 60-volume print edition.
Oxford Reference online: Premium
Collection:
It combines rich and
scholarly resources with authoritative, quick-reference coverage of
the full subject spectrum. It also offers excellent functionality,
and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations,
and timelines.
A vast online reference library...
- Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World
Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to
accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics
- The very best in quick-reference information plus
authoritative in-depth articles
- English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries
of French, German, Spanish, and Italian
- Over 900,000 entries across 25 subjects,
including an expanding range of Oxford Companions, and
the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- More than 6,000 illustrations, plus 500 full-colour maps
- Key events in the 20th century linked to themed timelines
- Updated regularly with new
books and new editions
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable
library containing the full text of over 1,000 Oxford books in the
areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and
Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are
available at book and chapter level, and at least 200 new and
recently-published books are added each year.
- 24x7 access to the full text of over 1,000
titles in Oxford Scholarship Online
- Access to the powerful Advanced Search
- search by author, title, keyword, subject, publication date, and
more
- Extensive reference linking from
bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL support
- Make direct links to individual chapters for
online course packs and reading lists via DOI
- Printer-friendly format for easier
printing
- New Automatically
export citations to EndnoteTM and Reference ManagerTM
The abstracts and keywords are also available
alongside journals' abstracts in a range of online services such as
IngentaConnect, and are available free of charge to non-subscribers
who visit the Oxford Scholarship Online
website.
Oxford English
Dictionary:
‘The ultimate authority on the
English language’
The Times
The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on
the history and development of the English language since 1150, is
now available online.
In addition to offering unparalleled access
to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume Oxford
English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series,
online publication enables the ‘treasure-house’ of the English
language to move with the times as never before.
- Unprecedented access to the 20-volume Second
Edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus at least
1,800 new and revised entries each quarter
- Select how entries are displayed by turning
pronunciations, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on
and off
- Everything from simple word look-ups to
sophisticated Boolean searching, using any of the fields in the
Dictionary, can be done with speed and ease
- Find a term when you know the meaning but have
forgotten the word
- Use wildcards if you are unsure of a spelling, or
if you want to search for words with common characteristics
- Search for quotations from a specified year, or
from a particular author and/or work
- Search for words which have come into English via
a particular language
- Search pronunciations as well as accented and
other special characters
- Search for first cited date, authors, and works
- Search for words with a particular part of speech
- Perform case-sensitive searches
- Restrict a search to a previous results set
- Compare revised entries with entries from the
Second Edition to see how the language has changed and how new
scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic and
cultural heritage
Offering unrivalled breadth and depth of content, a
wide range of search options, and extensive links to images from
galleries and museums around the world, Grove Art Online is the
unsurpassed authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the
present day.
Grove Music Online:
What Grove Art Online offers
- An award-winning resource on every aspect of the
visual arts from prehistory to the present day
- Over 45,000 articles on fine arts, decorative
arts, and architecture
- Scholarship written by over 6,000 international
contributors
- Over 130,000 art images, with links to hundreds
of museums and galleries around the world
- A wide range of search and browse options to
explore the full text, bibliographies, biographies, and image
links
What you can do with Grove Art
Online
- Explore over 21,000 biographies - everything from
artists, architects, photographers and designers to patrons,
dealers, theorists and writers
- Discover world cultures through articles on
China, South America, Africa, and much more
- Learn about styles, movements, and techniques –
from Baroque to Cubism to glass conservation
- Broaden your investigation using an award-winning
online Index
- Find your way to the online collections of
museums and galleries with speed and ease
Grove Music Online:
This
invaluable research tool combines the full text of the acclaimed
29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated
search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever
increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the
world.
What Grove Music Online offers
- Over 45,000 articles on people and places,
instruments and techniques, genres and styles
- Scholarship written by over 6,000 international
contributors
- Over 5,000 links to images, sound, and other
related web sites
- Over 500 audio musical examples
- A wide range of search and browse options to
explore the full text, bibliographies, works-lists, biographies,
and links
What you can do with Grove Music
Online
- Explore over 20,000 biographies – from Mozart to
Yo-Yo Ma, Diaghilev to P.T. Barnum, Fats Waller to Thin Man
- Discover world cultures through articles on
Africa, Asia, South America, Jewish music, and much more
- Learn about styles and movements – from classical
to hip-hop and from baroque to blues
- Study the development and construction of
instruments
- Search Grove's acclaimed works-lists to find
little-known or favourite compositions
The acclaimed 24-volume American
National Biography — winner of the American Library
Association's Dartmouth Medal for best reference of the year — is
now online!
The American National Biography
Online is the premier source of information about over
18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American
history and culture. With sophisticated search capabilities, lively
and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date
bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and
links to external web resources, ANB Online is ‘likely to
induce compulsive browsing’. (Wall Street Journal)
NEW!
The recent addition of 900 articles
from The Oxford Companion to United States
History expands the learning experience with
entries on historic events, social movements, ideologies, and iconic
sites in the United States.
From missionaries to musicians,
social workers to statisticians, cowboys to chemists, and vikings to
astronauts, the portraits in ANB Online combine to reflect
the rich diversity of American life from pre-colonial times onwards.
- Updated quarterly with new or
revised biographies along with new bibliographical resources and
links.
- Wide range of search options: Everything from quick searches to more advanced custom searching
can be done with speed and ease — search for Lithuanian
musicians who made their name in America, female lawyers born
between 1900 and 1930, and religious leaders and clergy who died
between 1875 and 1880.
- Over 80,000 linked
cross-references between ANB biographies.
- A rich web of editorially-selected
links to key archival, library and other external web
sites.
- Full-text search with advanced
capabilities (including concept, pattern and boolean methods)
- Browse & search by subject.