From: "Royalynn O'Connor" <ROY_at_zeus.oup-usa.org>
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a proposal from Oxford University
Press for a powerful new research tool to increase access to and
dissemination of academic publications.
The concept is for a series of discipline-based sites featuring an
extensive core of Oxford's research level books and academic
reference (c 250 works per discipline) with an ongoing publication
programme of c 50 new works per year in each discipline.
Oxford Scholarship Online will be a fully searchable full text
service. A distinguishing feature will be the book and chapter level
extracts and keywords provided which will enable book content to
be searched alongside journal and other online content. The
proposal is to have the abstracts hosted in a number of services
which also host online journal abstracts.
Oxford Scholarship Online will be available as an online
subscription service for libraries.
Oxford University Press is now researching this proposal and
would welcome input from librarians and scholars. To facilitate this
we have a simple questionnaire, and online demonstrator showing
the main features of Oxford Scholarship Online in a single
discipline.
If you would like to participate in the online research please e-mail
me directly at: juryk_at_oup.co.uk. We will also be organising
librarian and academic focus groups in the UK, Europe, and USA.
There is an opportunity to express interest in attending a focus
group on the questionnaire.
Kate Jury
Humanities and Social Sciences Group
Oxford University Press
Oxford.
juryk_at_oup.co.uk
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 13:16:50 EDT