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OUP Humanities Collection for FE 2020-2021

  • Start: 1 Aug 2020
    Expiry: 31 Jul 2021
  • Description:

    This bespoke FE collection includes Grove Art Online; Grove Music Online; the Oxford English Dictionary; Oxford Reference; the New Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford Language Dictionaries Online and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Product overview

Grove Art Online is the authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day. Over 38,000 signed articles and images. Articles by over 7,000 highly respected names in the field. Access to 7,600 images as well as 40,000 editorially selected image links.

Grove Music Online is the leading resource for music research. Featuring over 51,000 articles from Bach to Beyoncé, and continual updates, reviews, and contributions from over 9,000 scholars around the globe, Grove Music Online is the go-to resource for students and scholars alike.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words - past and present - from across the English-speaking world.

Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitised entries across Oxford University Press' Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Provides quality, authoritative, OUP-owned content from our award-winning reference publishing programme.

The New Oxford Shakespeare Online (NOS) is a dynamic, interactive resource that presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works. It includes:

The Modern Critical Edition

  • A complete Shakespeare for students and teachers
  • Provided in modernised spelling for reading and study

The Critical Reference Edition

  • Provided in original spelling from folio and quarto copy-texts
  • Detailed critical apparatus supports chosen readings and emendations

The Authorship Companion

  • Provides the editorial principles of the edition for literary scholars
  • Will constitute a major contribution to the debates over what Shakespeare wrote

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online is a comprehensive dictionary resource to support translation and language learning in Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian. Over 1.5 million words and phrases, and over 2.4 million translations.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. Over 60,000 biographies. Over 11,000 portraits (the largest selection of national portraiture ever published). 72 million words. 300 feature essays linking biographies together. Over 200 free podcast episodes on ODNB lives.

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Accessibility

OUP accessibility page

All resources reach WCAG, AA compliance and work with most popular screen-reading software.

Authentication

Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, and IP address range.

Federated searching

Grove Art Online and Grove Music - Supports federated searching using standard HTTP requests. The Z39.50 protocol is not supported.

Oxford English Dictionary - SRU service (search/retrieve via URL) provides a means to automate basic queries, using a standard syntax to represent queries and a standard protocol for returning results. For more information on SRU standards (www.loc.gov/standards/sru/). Results are returned in XML using the Dublin Core (DC) schema (www.dublincore.org). This makes the service appropriate for federated searching and similar automated query tasks.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Is not z39.50 compliant, but it supports standard HTTP requests using the method="get". There is also a Web look-up tool which launches a search in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from any other website using a downloadable browser link (see http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/subscribers/customize/ for details).

Oxford Dictionaries Online - the site can currently be accessed by federated search software via HTTP request and supports the method="get". A search should be constructed like the following example: www.oxforddictionaries.com/search?q=example

The New Oxford Shakespeare - Supports federated searching using standard HTTP requests

Full text linking

All resources are compliant with the OpenURL standard.

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