SCELC Vendor Day 2004

Oxford Online Products

For complete info, go to http://www.oxfordonline.com

New Products

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection http://www.oxfordreference.com
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. At launch this meant an additional 70,000 entries! And also exclusive to The Premium Collection, improved search functions for quick and easy retrieval of short and long subject reference entries, bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries, and quotations & proverbs. Current customers to The Core Collection can upgrade their subscriptions! A full list of titles can be found at http://www.oxfordonline.com/online/oro/premiumtitlelist.

Oxford Scholarship Online http://www.oxfordscholarship.com
OSO is a resource for top-level academic institutions. It offers fully cross-searchable text of over 700 carefully-selected recently published and classic Oxford scholarly books. At least 200 new titles will be added each year as part of the annual subscription. OSO is an innovation in electronic scholarly resources, providing students and professors with a research tool unlike any others. Keywords and book and chapter abstracts have been written for each title; these are particularly important because they allow scholars to search the content of OSO alongside the abstracting services they use for researching the scholarly journal literature. Subject modules will be available in Philosophy, Religion, Political Science, and Economics & Finance. Libraries can choose to subscribe to the whole collection or to one or more modules. A demo is available on the site at www.oxfordscholarship.com

Coming Soon! Fall 2004

Dictionary of National Biography Online http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/
A ground-breaking and engaging reference work providing specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online.

And Don't Forget!

American National Biography Online http://www.anb.org
The American National Biography Online is the premier biographical resource on over 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. It offers sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to external web resources. Updated quarterly, it will soon also include over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History edited by Paul S. Boyer, which will provide information on the landmark events in our nation's history and give context to the lives included in ANB Online.

Grove Art Online http://www.groveart.com
Grove Art Online is the ultimate authority on all the visual arts with over 45,000 articles and over 130,000 images, including an expanding list of links to art images in museums and galleries around the world. Contributors from 120 countries illuminate the civilizations, cultures, and people who have created visual art in all its forms and mediums from the beginning of time to the present day. This is a resource not only on art history, but also on world cultures and civilizations.

Grove Music Online http://www.grovemusic.com
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2e, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 2e. With no rival in either print or online, Grove Music Online has nearly 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, audio musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet. This is truly the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

Oxford English Dictionary Online http://www.oed.com
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources. The site is updated quarterly with at least 1500 new and revised entries.

Last updated March 12, 2004.