During the month of March, Oxford University Press is offering Nebraska librarians trial access to the following six databases:
Oxford Handbook Online
- Contains the complete text from the well-received Oxford Handbooks print collection, available for the first time electronically.
- Four subject areas: Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion
- Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and sets the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
- Over 2,000 original essays by internationally renowned scholars
- Available as a one-time purchase or as a subscription
- New titles added to the collection each year, with new subjects to be added later
Oxford Scholarship Online
- Contains the full content of over 3,700 books in electronic format
- At least 500 new and recently published titles added each year
- 18 subjects to choose from:
- Political Science, Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, Linguistics, Classics, Psychology, History, business and Management, Mathematics, Biology, Music, Physics, Law, Social Work, Neuroscience, and Public Health/Epidemiology.
- Keywords and abstracts at both book and chapter level, the vast majority written by the original author
- Free MARC Records available
- Available as a one-time purchase or as a subscription
Digital Reference Shelf
- Full-text electronic versions of nearly 50 award-winning, multi-volume Oxford reference sets available on an individual basis
- Titles work either as a stand-alone resource (each has its own static URL), and they also integrate and become searchable with Oxford Reference Online content
- All titles read as a webpage without the use of PDFs
- Free MARC records available for all titles
<Available as a one-time purchase
Grove Art Online
- Includes the full text of the 34-volume print edition of The Dictionary of Art–PLUS specially-commissioned articles and updated bibliographies only available online
- 45,000 articles contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries, covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more)
- Contains over 5,000 searchable and embedded art images, maps, and line drawings
- Extensive coverage of world art offering unparalleled depth of information covering the civilizations and cultures of Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, and more
- Updated three times a year with new and revised articles
Grove Music Online
- Broad coverage of musical styles: covers the entire history of music from Bach to the Blues
- Includes the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition)
- 50,000 articles by 6,000 contributors, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet
- Contains 28,000 biographies
- Updated three times a year with new and revised articles
Oxford Reference Online
- Contains 1.5 million entries across 25 subjects, including an extensive range of OUP subject dictionaries, Oxford Companions, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Access to 15,000 images, including 6,000 in full color with fully-searhable captions and over 900 full-color country, state, and city maps, and flags
- Over 30 timelines link more than 2,000 key events throughout history in the fields of Art and Architecture; Literature; Performing Arts; Politics and Government; Science, Technology and Medicine; Society; and War
- Updated several times a year with new titles and new editions
Trial Dates: March 3, 2010 through April 1, 2010
Trial Access Instructions: Trial access instructions were distributed via a March 9, 2010 message to the TRIAL mailing list. If you did not receive this information or would like to have it sent to you again, please email
Susan Knisely.
