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Online Resources. From Oxford University Press. T his presentation gives a very brief overview of online resources from Oxford University Press in the field of Economics, including: Very Short Introductions Oxford Reference Oxford Journals University Press Scholarship Online

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  1. Online Resources From Oxford University Press

  2. This presentation gives a very brief overview of • online resources from Oxford University Press in the field of Economics, including: • Very Short Introductions • Oxford Reference • Oxford Journals • University Press Scholarship Online • Oxford Handbooks • Electronic Enlightenment • The presentation will take about 10 minutes

  3. The following slides show how each resource fits into the research journey. They also highlight some useful features found in most or all of them. Each resource provides a vital step on the research journey, from quick fact checking, to reviewing the literature in a field, to keeping up to date with the latest research. Introduction

  4. Click on any of the boxes to jump to that section in the presentation. Navigation

  5. Very Short Introductions

  6. The Very Short Introductions are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable. Browse by subject to see the titles available in Economics. www.veryshortintroductions.com

  7. Each book has its own homepage, so as well as treating the resource as a huge database, you can also browse through individual titles. You will also find editorially selected links in the left column to aid your research journey. www.veryshortintroductions.com

  8. Book and chapter-level DOIs make maintaining reading lists easier. Page numbers in the text correspond to the print edition, meaning that a tutor using print can still refer students to a particular page. www.veryshortintroductions.com

  9. Oxford Reference

  10. Samuelson Searching sites is straightforward. Simply type the term and click. Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, including Economics. As you browse through Oxford Reference, you may find results that range from short-entry, general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects. www.oxfordreference.com

  11. Results also include a quick dictionary definition, and an Overview page. Results come from several different books in the collection, and can be filtered in various ways using the left column. www.oxfordreference.com

  12. The Oxford Index underbar also allows you to extend the search to other online material from Oxford University Press. The Overview page, which is freely available and discoverable on Google, provides a quick reference source and gives useful onward links to make the research journey smoother. www.oxfordreference.com

  13. If you do have a subscription, you can go directly to the relevant book or chapter from here. Clicking on the underbar link will take you to the index card for that resource on Oxford Index. Oxford Index is a free discovery service which links up scholarly resources from Oxford University Press. The Index is freely available, so even if you do not have a subscription to the resource, you will be able to see the preview or abstract. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/

  14. Oxford Scholarship Online University Press Scholarship Online

  15. DOIs and page numbers are available throughout. Content pages on Oxford Scholarship Online behave in a very similar way to those on other OUP resources. You can also show a printer friendly version of the page, or download it as a pdf. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  16. Oxford Scholarship Online is available on the University Press Scholarship Online platform. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  17. University Press Scholarship Online brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. A vast and rapidly-expanding online research library, University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) offers full-text access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world, making disparately-published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  18. Results can be refined in the usual way and you can search within results. “economic inequality” www.universitypressscholarship.com

  19. Notice that you can further refine by sub-topic, or reorder by publication date. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  20. Abstracts are available at book and chapter level. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  21. Resources can be cited by either copying and pasting or using citation export software. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  22. You can use the bar to navigate quickly to other chapters or parts of the book. You can use the bar to navigate quickly to other chapters or parts of the book. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  23. Open URL linking means that you can connect your library catalogue to bibliographies via your link resolver. www.universitypressscholarship.com

  24. Oxford Journals

  25. Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes the highest quality journals and delivers this research to the widest possible audience. We achieve this by working closely with our society partners, authors, and subscribers in order to provide them with publishing services that support their research needs. www.oxfordjournals.org

  26. You can also find instructions on viewing the mobile-optimised version of the site. You can read about OUP’s Open Access initiative via the Oxford Open link. www.oxfordjournals.org

  27. Journal articles can be downloaded as pdf files. You can set up automatic email alerts when the article is cited or corrected. You can also save articles to your own personal archive in the My Account area. www.oxfordjournals.org

  28. Oxford Handbooks Online

  29. Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. The collection of Oxford Handbooks is one of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  30. You can browse all the articles in a field, or change the view to look at the books. You can always refine your search or browse results to show only those articles to which you have full access. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  31. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  32. When you are looking at a book home page, the left column search box will search only within that book. Negotiation www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  33. As with the other resources, you can save content pages and search results to your own My Work area. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  34. Sign in to the My Work area to see your saved material. training@oup.com ******* www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  35. As well as saving content pages and search results, once you sign in to the My Work area you can also annotate pages. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  36. Simply highlight any part of a content page and add your own notes to the box. www.oxfordhandbooks.com

  37. Electronic Enlightenment

  38. With nearly 64,000 letters and documents and just over 8,000 correspondents as of Summer 2013, Electronic Enlightenmentis the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world. www.e-enlightenment.com

  39. The site allows readers to follow the chains of correspondence between leading figures of the enlightenment. It provides biographical information on each of the correspondents. www.e-enlightenment.com

  40. www.e-enlightenment.com

  41. Click on any of the boxes to find out more

  42. You can see similar presentations on other Oxford University Press online resources in the Librarian Resource Centre www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians

  43. For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free trials and price quotations please contact your library supplier or Oxford University Press: Online Products, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP onlineproducts@oup.com +44 (0) 1865 353705 +44 (0) 1865 353308

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