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E- Books

E- Books. Hilla Wait Colin Cook Philosophy Faculty Library. Workshop aims. To understand the value of e-books for teaching and research To understand their limitations To survey sources of e-books To focus on Oxford’s subscriptions to e-books To learn to use: Past Masters

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E- Books

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  1. E- Books Hilla Wait Colin Cook Philosophy Faculty Library OULS WISER Humanities

  2. Workshop aims • To understand the value of e-books for teaching and research • To understand their limitations • To survey sources of e-books • To focus on Oxford’s subscriptions to e-books • To learn to use: • Past Masters • Oxford Scholarship OnLine • Taylor&Francis e-Books Library OULS WISER Humanities

  3. What are they for? • 24/7 access for multiple users • Substitutes for antiquarian texts • Linking to reading lists • Full-text searching • Accessability • Portability • Reformatting and compilation • Limitations • Beware plagiarism OULS WISER Humanities

  4. Electronic Texts • Electronic Journals • Electronic Reference Sources • Electronic Primary Texts • Electronic Secondary Texts OULS WISER Humanities

  5. Free E-Books • Google BookSearchhttp://books.google.com/ • Googlescholarhttp://scholar.google.com/ • Publishers’ sample pageshttp://www.cambridge.org/uk/browse/browse_samples.asp?subjectid=1009106 • Internet searches, • Basic scanned texts OULS WISER Humanities

  6. Electronic Primary Texts • Past Masters (English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology) • Perseus (Classics) • Wittgenstein Nachlaß • Early English Books Online • Eighteenth Century Collections Online • LION (Literature Online) OULS WISER Humanities

  7. Electronic Secondary Texts • Oxford Scholarship OnLine • Philosophy, Religion, Economics, Political Science • Taylor & Francis/Routledge On-Line E-Books Library • English, History, • Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology, Classics • Theology Digital Library (TDL) http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/library/dig_index.phtml OULS WISER Humanities

  8. How do we find them? • OxLIP (links to package) • URL (links to package) • http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/Home/html/index.asp • http://library.nlx.com/ • http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/ • OLIS links • Reading List links (PPE General Philosophy Prelims) • Athens password http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/ OULS WISER Humanities

  9. Past Masters: getting started • Complete list • Expand to individual author • Expand to individual title • Open any chapter, no time or user limit OULS WISER Humanities

  10. Past Masters: navigating • Screen layout • Using the Table of Contents • Changing the display • Open any chapter, no time or user limit • Changing chapter or title • Changing database OULS WISER Humanities

  11. Past Masters: searching • Searching by simple search • Cross database searching • Proximity search • Formatting, copying and printing OULS WISER Humanities

  12. Oxford Scholarship OnLine: getting started • Complete list • Search for a title or author • Abstract and TOC • Open any chapter, no time or user limit • Navigating • Formatting, copying and printing OULS WISER Humanities

  13. Oxford Scholarship OnLine: subject searching • Quick Search • Searching within a single text • Advanced Search • Searching by keyword • Cross-referencing/Design a search OULS WISER Humanities

  14. Taylor & Francis/Routledge : getting started • Logging in • Complete list • Search for an individual title • Look at the abstract • Reservations • Open the book using the DX-Reader OULS WISER Humanities

  15. Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Navigating • Moving around • Highlighting, marking, annotating text • Formatting, copying and printing • Using the Research Notebook OULS WISER Humanities

  16. Taylor & Francis/Routledge : searching • Searching within a book • Searching by keyword • Searching the full-text content • Logging out OULS WISER Humanities

  17. Looking to the future • Monitoring usage • Feedback from users • Feedback to suppliers • New acquisitions • Extra Past Masters texts • Ebrary • Netlibrary OULS WISER Humanities

  18. And finally • User guides and on-line tutorials • http://www.nlx.com/tutorials/PastMastersDemo_viewlet_swf.html • http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/tour/tour_start.html • http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/home/html/help.asp?category=SB150000 • Exercises • Feedback to hilla.wait@philosophy OULS WISER Humanities

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