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John Campbell, Online Project ManagerAcademic Division

‘a must-have online resource’ Library Journal’s netConnect

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What is Oxford Scholarship Online?

• A 175-million word online database containing over 1,350 of the research-level books from OUP, with at least 200 new books added every year (450 from September)

• Four research-level subject modules - Philosophy, Economics and Finance, Religion, Political Science, expanding to 13 in September 2007

• Free world-wide access to valuable non-subscriber content

What is Oxford Scholarship Online?

• OUP’s largest single online project outside Journals

• 280 institutional customers in 35 countries including national and regional consortia

• 175,000,000 words

• 30,000 figures

• 70,000 MathML equations

• 15,000 abstracts and 100,000 keywords

• 3 updates per year

Why? Re-inventing the Scholarly Book

• Furthering the dissemination of knowledge

• Addressing the change in usage of the traditional monograph. Not all the best research is in journals…

• Taking a risk - will front-list sales be affected?

• Publishing more content with a unique means of distribution

• Over 1,000 Oxford authors have opted-in to shape the future

How? An Innovative Business Model

Get away from the static e-book model. Why replicate the status quo online?

Listen to our institutional customers. Three access models:• Unlimited campus-wide access, plus remote user access• Concurrent-user licence • Perpetual access – a flexible purchase model

Annual subscription gives access to all content, plus over 400 new books each year

How? From Manuscript to Online

8 XML checking, preparation and loading

6 First proofs

4 Handover to EDP

3 Typescript delivery

2 Contract and consent

1 Proposal/planning stage

5 Typesetting7 Final PDF approval

9 Pre-flight checks

10 Make live

PrintingEDP

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How? Key Features...

• Unique newly-commissioned abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter - available both in OSO and other online sites (IngentaConnect, OCLC WorldCat with more to come)

• A book first: reference linking to and from other online resources, including OpenURL, DOI deposit, and MARC21 records

• Enabling the linking of scholarly book chapters and segments to online course materials

...Key Features

• Full-text HTML generated from an advanced XML database, driving typesetting innovation

• Fully cross-searchable, not just stand-alone e-books

• Printing of individual pages and chapters enabled. Flexible rights model

• Let’s take a look…

Result? Getting the Book off the Shelf

Helping students and scholars find the best research-level content online, right alongside journals

• book content searchable in the same places as journal content• abstracts and keywords aid discovery in other resources

Helping librarians and teachers improve access to the content of scholarly monographs

• teachers can direct students to recommended chapters and books

• 6 million page requests since launch. Viewing either free abstracts and keywords or subscriber-only full-text pages

• OSO core market is students and scholars in premier institutions with large research libraries - but we are now also reaching markets which have never traditionally bought monographs: UK FE, British Council, Slovakia, Russia, India, Kazakhstan,Ghana…

• Innovation is integral to the future with ever-increasing depth, subject range, access models, future partnerships

The Unfolding Story…