OXFORD
Scholarship Online
‘a must-have online resource’
John Campbell, Online Project Manager
Academic Division
Library Journal’s netConnect
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?
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OUP’s largest single online project outside Journals
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280 institutional customers in 35 countries including national and regional consortia
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175,000,000 words
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30,000 figures
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70,000 MathML equations
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15,000 abstracts and 100,000 keywords
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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
1 Proposal/planning stage
10 Make live
2 Contract and consent
9 Pre-flight checks
3 Typescript delivery
8 XML checking,
preparation and loading
4 Handover to EDP
7 Final PDF approval
5 Typesetting
6 First proofs
Printing
EDP
Editorial
How? Key Features...
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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
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Full-text HTML generated from an advanced XML database, driving typesetting innovation
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Fully cross-searchable, not just stand-alone e-books
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Printing of individual pages and chapters enabled. Flexible rights model
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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
The Unfolding Story…
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6 million page requests since launch. Viewing either free abstracts and keywords or subscriberonly full-text pages
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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…
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Innovation is integral to the future with ever-increasing depth, subject range, access models,
future partnerships