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2010/06/01 Update!

2010/06/01 Update!. Premium Collection. Or look at the maps and full colour captioned illustrations. This is the home page - from here you can search across the whole database…. Go straight to a subject or a book.

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2010/06/01 Update!

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  1. 2010/06/01 Update!

  2. Premium Collection

  3. Or look at the maps and full colour captioned illustrations This is the home page - from here you can search across the whole database… Go straight to a subject or a book

  4. But now let’s start finding facts: enter a search term and click heart And explore the Timelines

  5. Change the display of your results from here Here’s the list of results for your search for ‘heart’

  6. Or view all the illustrations from the Visual Dictionary AND any articles that include illustrations by selecting this tab Click here to go straight to the full colour captioned illustrations in the Visual Dictionary

  7. This is an illustration from the Visual English Dictionary You will find illustrations from the same entry section are also of interest All of the captions are searchable so that this illustration will be included in your results if you look for ‘aorta’ or ‘pulmonary’

  8. You can email an article or picture to a friend! Citation information included with each illustration

  9. It is permissible to print out a single copy or save electronically to include in documents For more information on permission to use illustrations and content see http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/privacypolicy_and_legalnotices or click on ‘Privacy Policy and Legal Notices’ at foot of Home Page and every entry

  10. But let’s get back to our list of search results and take a look at one of the longer entries

  11. This is the article from the Oxford Companion to the Body as indicated here Your original search terms appear in red Cross-references to entries in this book are highlighted in blue in the main text and listed alphabetically in the margin

  12. …and click here This is the entry for kidney Any word can be made a cross-reference - simply highlight it …

  13. Results from across the whole database

  14. Back to the entry for heart Click here to get to other sections of this long entry Click on diagram to enlarge

  15. At the foot of the entry you will find citation information and links to other articles of interest

  16. Every book has at least 10 external links where you can find even more information

  17. Links for the bilingual dictionaries include newspapers and magazines

  18. Click here and a new page will open You can search Oxford Reference Online from any web site. Here’s how!

  19. Simply drag this text box to your toolbar

  20. And click! From another web site, highlight the word you want to find

  21. Voilà - instant translation!

  22. Let’s explore the Timelines

  23. There are currently 40 Timelines, linking over 2,000 key events in 20th- century history

  24. Each event on a timeline is linked to a carefully-selected article, making research and discovery quick and easy

  25. You can of course also search Oxford Reference at subject level

  26. O Or at book level

  27. But ‘ORO’ is so intuitive it will find your results from your keywords in the quick search box

  28. Western Civilization Collection

  29. Western Civilization Collection WHAT IS IT? • A subject cluster including a comprehensive selection of award-winning reference titles • The works in this collection trace the development of western thought and culture from the time of Socrates to the Enlightenment, and the colonization of the Americas • Fully searchable within Oxford Reference Online Premium

  30. Western Civilization Collection LAUNCH TITLES Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance 1 Volume, 912 pages Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment 4 Volumes, 1874 pages Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium 3 Volumes, 2338 pages Oxford Classical Dictionary 1 Volume, 1696 pages Encyclopedia of the Reformation 4 Volumes, 2004 pages Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages 2 Volumes, 1624 pages

  31. All the marked titles are part of the collection – searchable within Oxford Reference Online

  32. Literature Collection

  33. Literature Collection WHAT IS IT? • a comprehensive set of distinguished reference works detailing literature from 8th century Germany, to Edwardian England to 20th century America • provides unrivalled coverage of literary periods, genres, and writers, all cross referenced and fully searchable • incorporated into Oxford Reference Online Premium within the ‘Literature’ subject group

  34. Encyclopedia of American Literature 4 volumes, 2272 pages Literature Collection 10 LAUNCH TITLES Oxford Companion to Chaucer 544 pages Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English 772 pages Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing 606 pages Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction 464 pages

  35. Literature Collection New Oxford Companion to Literature in French 916 pages Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing 535 pages Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales 640 pages Oxford Companion to German Literature 699 pages Oxford Companion to Italian Literature 690 pages

  36. Literature Collection NEW TITLES - COMING SOON • Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, 5 volumes, 2800 pages, published on 23 March 2006 • Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, 4 volumes, 1824 pages, published on 25 May 2006 • Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation • Oxford Encyclopedia of English Literature • Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature

  37. All the marked titles are included in the Literature Collection

  38. Context-sensitive help is always available You can check here to see current and past updates – and much more

  39. Oxford Reference Online “The Bottom Line: Both thumbs are way up for Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection. It's bigger, it's better, the content is superb, and the design makes use of some of the best features we've seen in online reference publishing. Recommended for any and every library. This is a top-quality resource.” - Library Journal

  40. Oxford Reference Online “will eclipse any general knowledge source online or in print” - Sydney Morning Herald “help whenever you need it . . . clear directions on every page. . . . The ability to search for other instances of any word or term in the database adds tremendous value to the service.”- Asian Age “The new turbocharged online database from Oxford University Press puts the serious back into serious research....subscribers can access the equivalent of 20 feet of books that include perhaps the most carefully compiled library on Earth.” - Chicago Tribune

  41. 聯絡我們 江憲助 經理 groscctw@ms32.hinet.net http://www.chiuru.com.tw/orop.html

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