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Oxford’s E-Books and how to use them

Kate Williams and Hilla Wait

Structure of today’s session

Value of e-books for teaching and research

Overview of e-books in OxfordHow to access and use themTime to explore

What is an ebook?

 e-book, n.  A hand-held electronic device on which the text

of a book can be read. Also: a book whose text is available in an electronic format for reading on such a device or on a computer screen; (occas.) a book whose text is available only or primarily on the Internet.

Why do we want e-books? Print surrogates

Accessibility - 24/7 access for multiple users Substitute for antiquarian texts Space-saving Do not deteriorate No graffiti Reduced processing costs

Added value Full-text searching X-author searching Reformatting, cut & paste, compilation Textual mark-up Group working Quality control

What are the drawbacks Finding them Learning how to use them Access to computers Tiring to read on screen Illegal sites Do they encourage plagiarism?

E-books in Oxford

How many do we have in Oxford?

Electronic Reference Sources Quick sources of information

Short sessions, average 5 mins

Electronic Primary Texts Print surrogates with search options

Session length, 20 mins + Electronic Secondary Texts

Print surrogates with search options Session length, 10-30 mins +

How do we find Oxford’s E-books?

Package or individual titlesSOLO/OLIS (links to individual books)OxLIP+ (links to package)Diversity rules

On-Line philosophy texts

Primary sources Past Masters Perseus EEBO and ECCO Wittgenstein Nachlaß

Secondary sources NetLibrary Oxford Scholarship On-Line Taylor & Francis (Routledge) E-books Cambridge Companions On-Line Blackwell Reference On-Line

Searching for e-books in SOLO

1000s of E-books included in SOLOListed alongside print booksCan search as normalLook for “1 of X versions” link - groups

editions and print/electronic togetherClick online access for direct link to the e-

book

Searching for e-books in SOLO

Can limit your search to e-books:Limit item type to booksLimit collections to online resources

Searching for e-books in Oxlip+

Electronic Reference Sources

Oxford Reference On-LineDictionary of National BiographyBlackwell Reference On-LineGrove Encyclopaedia of Music Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Oxford Reference On-Line

Electronic Primary Texts

Past Masters Philosophy, English, Theology, Politics

Early English Books Online ECCO Making of the Modern World World Bank e-Library

Past Masters

Expand package → author→title

Using the Table of Contents

Changing the display Navigating the text Searching by simple search Power search Cross database searching Results Map Proximity search

World Bank E-Book Library

Making of the Modern World

Secondary Texts NetLibrary

Social Sciences and Humanities MyILibrary

Law and Social Sciences Taylor & Francis

Humanities and EducationOxford Scholarship Online

Political Science, Economics & Finance, Theology, Philosophy

ACLS Humanities E-Books  History

Science Direct (Elsevier) Handbooks in Economics and Statistics

NetLibrary

MyILibrary

Oxford Scholarship On-Line

Blackwell Reference On-Line

Taylor & Francis

Free e-booksProject GutenbergGoogle projectIntute

peer-reviewed

The Internet Not peer-reviewed Basic scanned older editions Not always legal

Forthcoming

Cambridge Histories On-LineDe Gruyter e-booksOxford Scholarship On-Line –

Classics and English

And finally

Live demonstrations Past Masters, MyILibrary, WorldBank,

NetLibrary, Taylor & Francis, Oxford Scholarship On-Line, MOMW,

RequestsPractice opportunitiesQuestions