Tuesday 21 April 2009

Oxford Scholarship Online: a leap forward in electronic resources for learning

Thanks to a generous benefaction the University Library has been able to take a significant leap forward in improving its support for undergraduate learning by acquiring access in perpetuity to all titles in the Oxford Scholarship Online collection of e-books published to the end of 2008.

BIOLOGY books cover topics such as animal biology, aquatic biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biodiversity, conservation biology, biotechnology, disease ecology, epidemiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, field guides, ornithology, plant sciences, and forestry. See http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/biology/subject_home.html

This collection provides quick and easy access to the full text of over 2,500 books published by Oxford University Press in a wide-ranging group of subjects from biology to religion, ranging through business and management, economics, classical studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, and political science. It is widely viewed as one of the most impressive ebook collections available and one of the few to be aimed principally at undergraduate students. Its acquisition helps to meet the fast growing demand for access to textbooks anywhere and at any time, relieves pressure on the most sought-after titles , and complements ebook collections already in heavy use in the university including the Cambridge Companions Online and MyiLibrary.

Oxford Scholarship Online is easy and intuitive to use and designed to make incorporation of its content into online reading lists and course packs as simple as possible at book and chapter level.

Individual ebooks will be accessible from Newton. The collection can be found at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/. The books are accessible on campus without passwords and off-campus with a Raven Id and password.







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