1. OULS WISER Humanities E- Books Hilla Wait Colin Cook Philosophy Faculty Library

2. OULS WISER Humanities Workshop aims  To understand the value of e-books for teaching and research  To understand their limitations  To survey sources of e-books  To focus on Oxford’s subscriptions to e-books  To learn to use: Past Masters Oxford Scholarship OnLine Taylor&Francis e-Books Library

3. OULS WISER Humanities What are they for?  24/7 access for multiple users  Substitutes for antiquarian texts  Linking to reading lists  Full-text searching  Accessability  Portability  Reformatting and compilation  Limitations  Beware plagiarism

4. OULS WISER Humanities Electronic Texts  Electronic Journals  Electronic Reference Sources  Electronic Primary Texts  Electronic Secondary Texts

5. OULS WISER Humanities Free E-Books  Google BookSearch http://books.google.com/  Googlescholar http://scholar.google.com /  Publishers’ sample pages http://www.cambridge.org/uk /browse/browse_samples.as p?subjectid=1009106 http://www.cambridge.org/uk /browse/browse_samples.as p?subjectid=1009106  Internet searches,  Basic scanned texts

6. OULS WISER Humanities Electronic Primary Texts  Past Masters ( English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology )  Perseus (Classics)  Wittgenstein Nachlaß  Early English Books Online  Eighteenth Century Collections Online  LION (Literature Online)

7. OULS WISER Humanities Electronic Secondary Texts  Oxford Scholarship OnLine Philosophy, Religion, Economics, Political Science  Taylor & Francis/Routledge On-Line E-Books Library English, History, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology, Classics  Theology Digital Library (TDL) http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/library/dig_index.phtml

8. OULS WISER Humanities How do we find them?  OxLIP (links to package)  URL (links to package)  http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/Home/html/index.asp  http://library.nlx.com/  http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/  OLIS links  Reading List links (PPE General Philosophy Prelims)  Athens password http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/

9. OULS WISER Humanities Past Masters: getting started  Complete list  Expand to individual author  Expand to individual title  Open any chapter, no time or user limit

10. OULS WISER Humanities Past Masters: navigating  Screen layout  Using the Table of Contents  Changing the display  Open any chapter, no time or user limit  Changing chapter or title  Changing database

11. OULS WISER Humanities Past Masters: searching  Searching by simple search  Cross database searching  Proximity search  Formatting, copying and printing

12. OULS WISER Humanities Oxford Scholarship OnLine: getting started  Complete list  Search for a title or author  Abstract and TOC  Open any chapter, no time or user limit  Navigating  Formatting, copying and printing

13. OULS WISER Humanities Oxford Scholarship OnLine: subject searching  Quick Search  Searching within a single text  Advanced Search  Searching by keyword  Cross-referencing/Design a search

14. OULS WISER Humanities Taylor & Francis/Routledge : getting started  Logging in  Complete list  Search for an individual title  Look at the abstract  Reservations  Open the book using the DX-Reader

15. OULS WISER Humanities Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Navigating  Moving around  Highlighting, marking, annotating text  Formatting, copying and printing  Using the Research Notebook

16. OULS WISER Humanities Taylor & Francis/Routledge : searching  Searching within a book  Searching by keyword  Searching the full-text content  Logging out

17. OULS WISER Humanities Looking to the future  Monitoring usage  Feedback from users  Feedback to suppliers  New acquisitions Extra Past Masters texts Ebrary Netlibrary

18. OULS WISER Humanities And finally  User guides and on-line tutorials http://www.nlx.com/tutorials/PastMastersD emo_viewlet_swf.html http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/publ ic/tour/tour_start.html http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/publ ic/tour/tour_start.html http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/home/html/hel p.asp?category=SB150000  Exercises  Feedback to hilla.wait@philosophy