Online Resources

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 International Relations, including: • SIPRI Yearbook • Oxford Reference • University Press Scholarship Online • Oxford Journals • Oxford Handbooks • Oxford Bibliographies • Oxford Public International Law • Oxford Constitutions of the World

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. Introduction

5. SIPRI YEARBOOK

6. SIPRI (the Stockholm International Peace & Research Institute) is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. It was established in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. The SIPRI Yearbook is the authoritative source of data and analysis on: Security and conflicts Military spending and armaments Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. www.sipriyearbook.org

7. Click on Browse to see a particular yearbook. www.sipriyearbook.org

8. You can search for content within this yearbook by using the search box at the left of the page, or search all the yearbooks together using the search box at the top right. www.sipriyearbook.org

9. Oxford Reference

10. counterinsurgency 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. 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. Indigenous People Results can be refined in the usual way and you can search within results. 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. 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 read about OUP’s Open Access initiative via the Oxford Open link. You can also find instructions on viewing the mobile-optimised version of the site. 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

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32. When you are looking at a book home page, the left column search box will search only within that book. Civil society 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. Oxford Bibliographies Online

38. Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

39. Editors and authors come from institutions around the world. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

40. You can see a list of forthcoming articles here. Each article is reviewed annually and updated with the latest scholarship available. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

41. Oxford Public International Law www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

42. Oxford Public International Law (OPIL) is a comprehensive, single portal providing integrated access across our international law services. Oxford Reports on International Law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law, and Oxford Historical Treaties are ground-breaking online resources working to speed up research and provide easy access to authoritative content.

43. Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) has set new standards for currency and coverage of public international case law, reporting on international courts, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Case reports contain the full text of each decision, headnote, as well as analytical commentary and English translations of a number of key non-English decisions.

46. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. This major reference work is essential for anyone researching or teaching international law.

48. Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law brings a major new dimension to our offerings for scholars and practitioners working in public international law. Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law contains full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press.

49. Oxford Historical Treaties (OHT) is the premier resource for historical treaty research and home to the full text of The Consolidated Treaty Series, the only comprehensive collection of treaties of all nations concluded from 1648 through to 1919.

50. Oxford Constitutional Law