2. Online Resources From Oxford University Press

3. T his presentation gives a very brief overview of online resources from Oxford University Press in the field of Science, including: Very Short Introductions Oxford Reference Oxford Journals University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Bibliographies Oxford Research Encyclopedias The presentation will take about 10 minutes

4. 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. Introduction 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.

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6. Very Short Introductions

7. The Very Short Introductions are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. www.veryshortintroductions.com 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 Science.

8. www.veryshortintroductions.com 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.

9. www.veryshortintroductions.com 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.

10. Oxford Reference

11. 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 Science. www.oxfordreference.com 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. Charles Darwin Searching sites is straightforward. Simply type the term and click.

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

13. www.oxfordreference.com 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. The Oxford Index underbar also allows you extend the search to other online material from Oxford University Press.

14. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/ 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.

15. Oxford Scholarship Online University Press Scholarship Online

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

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

18. University Press Scholarship Online brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. www.universitypressscholarship.com 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.

19. www.universitypressscholarship.com

20. Results can be refined in the usual way and you can search within results. www.universitypressscholarship.com refraction

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

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

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

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

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

26. Oxford Journals

27. Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes the highest quality journals and delivers this research to the widest possible audience. www.oxfordjournals.org 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.

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

29. Journal articles can be downloaded as pdf files. www.oxfordjournals.org 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.

30. Oxford Bibliographies Online

31. Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com 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.

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

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

34. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field and is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship with original commentary and annotations.

35. Oxford Research Encyclopaedias

36. Through the Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) program, Oxford is building dynamic online encyclopedias in 20 disciplines that will be continuously updated by the world's leading scholars, scientists, and researchers. With expert editors and peer- review, the ORE project will combine the discoverability of digital with the standards of academic publishing. https://global.oup.com/academic/online/orehub Updated monthly, the Oxford Research Encyclopedias will be living reference works, mapping the entirety of a field of study as the field evolves.

37. http://www.oxfordlanguageediting.com Oxford University Press also offers English language editing for researchers who are preparing academic documents for publication, presentation, or sharing. This service is for researchers worldwide, no matter where you are intending to publish. We edit abstracts, books, dissertations, journal articles, letters, presentations, and theses in all disciplines.

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