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E- Books
Hilla Wait
Colin Cook
Philosophy Faculty Library
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Workshop aims
To understand the value of e-books for teachingand 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
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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
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Electronic Texts
Electronic Journals
Electronic Reference Sources
Electronic Primary Texts
Electronic Secondary Texts
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Free E-Books
Google BookSearchhttp://books.google.com/
Googlescholarhttp://scholar.google.com/
Internet searches,
Basic scanned texts
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Electronic Primary Texts
Past Masters (English, ModernLanguages, Philosophy, Theology)
Perseus (Classics)
Wittgenstein Nachlaß
Early English Books Online
Eighteenth CenturyCollections Online
LION (Literature Online)
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Electronic Secondary Texts
Oxford Scholarship OnLine
Philosophy, Religion, Economics, Political Science
Taylor & Francis/Routledge On-Line E-BooksLibrary
English, History,
Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology,Classics
Theology Digital Library (TDL)
http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/library/dig_index.phtml
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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 GeneralPhilosophy Prelims)
Athens passwordhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
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Past Masters: getting started
Complete list
Expand to individualauthor
Expand to individualtitle
Open any chapter,no time or user limit
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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
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Past Masters: searching
Searching by simple search
Cross database searching
Proximity search
Formatting, copying and printing
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Oxford Scholarship OnLine:getting started
Complete list
Search for a title orauthor
Abstract and TOC
Open any chapter,no time or user limit
Navigating
Formatting, copyingand printing
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Oxford Scholarship OnLine:subject searching
Quick Search
Searching within a single text
Advanced Search
Searching by keyword
Cross-referencing/Design a search
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge :getting started
Logging in
Complete list
Search for anindividual title
Look at the abstract
Reservations
Open the book usingthe DX-Reader
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge:Navigating
Moving around
Highlighting,marking, annotatingtext
Formatting, copyingand printing
Using the ResearchNotebook
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Taylor & Francis/Routledge :searching
Searching within a book
Searching by keyword
Searching the full-text content
Logging out
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Looking to the future
Monitoring usage
Feedback from users
Feedback tosuppliers
New acquisitions
Extra Past Masterstexts
Ebrary
Netlibrary
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And finally
User guides and on-line tutorials
http://www.nlx.com/tutorials/PastMastersDemo_viewlet_swf.html
http://oxford.etailer.dpsl.net/home/html/help.asp?category=SB150000
Exercises
Feedback to hilla.wait@philosophy