Run Run Shaw Library
City University of Hong Kong
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library providing access to the full text of over 1,800
Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Biology,
Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, and
Psychology.
Access Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books
1. At the CityU Library Home Page (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/), select E-book collections.
2. Select Oxford Scholarship Online from the alphabetical list.
OR
3. At the CityU Library Home Page (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/), select E-Resources.
4. Click on E-Books.
5. Click on Oxford Scholarship Online.
Browse
Click on one of the Subject areas to browse available titles.
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NOT
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both.
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Oxford Scholarship Online automatically searches for variations of words. For example, world
will find worlds, world-famous, world-soul, etc.
You may also use the wildcard symbol * to widen the scope of your search, e.g. financ* will find
finances, financed, financially etc.
You can use the wildcard symbol ? to replace one character e.g. h?t will find hit, hot, hut, hat.
Use quotation marks " " to search for phrases, e.g. "intellectual property".
Use brackets ( ) to specify the order of execution of the Boolean operators in your search statement,
e.g. education and (teenagers or adolescents). The terms in the brackets are processed first.
Searches are case insensitive.
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the abstract, the full text
(if available), and the
hyperlinked table of
contents for the book.
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within the displayed
e-book. Enter terms
in the search box.
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or other software, or to email or
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to corresponding section of
the book.
Click on the footnote number to
view the corresponding reference at
the end of the chapter/e-book.
Click to download book
chapter.
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