The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Content description
The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. The Oxford Handbooks provide an in-depth introduction to topics in each discipline, and are an essential reference resource for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners.
Extensive links make the 65 online handbooks easy to navigate, and cross-searching with Oxford Scholarship Online allows users to move seamlessly from discursive introductions to original research monographs
Main subject areas
Oxford Handbooks Online is available in 4 subject modules; Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion; modules can be bought separately or together (discounts apply for multi-module purchase).
Academic level
Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and academic researchers.
Date range
N/A.
Updates
The product is updated with new titles three times a year.
Publisher's selection policy
All Oxford handbooks are extensively peer reviewed and approved by a board of leading academics from Oxford University.
Cost
Year 1
Year 2
Notes
Year 1 runs from 1 October 2009 - 30 September 2010
Year 2 runs from 1 October 2010 - 31 May 2011
Multi module discounts apply as follows:
- 3 modules: 10% discount
- 4 modules: 15% discount
An administration fee of £35 per invoice will be charged on invoices in excess of £600. This fee covers JISC Collections' administration and invoicing costs.
How does JISC Banding and Charging work?
Subscription
The agreement runs from 1 October 2009 to 31 May 2011.
For instructions on how to subscribe to Oxford Handbooks Online, and to access the sub-licence agreement, please see the subscription page.
The agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence
For further details of the JISC Model Licence please refer to the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
In addition to the full text of the works contained within Oxford Handbooks Online, the resource provides extensive reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL support (for products such as SFX) and via stable DOI links to matching resources.
Editorially selected and created links to related content in Oxford Scholarship Online and other online resources from Oxford University Press and to contributors' web sites, articles, and monographs.
Direct links from online bibliographies and reading lists can be made to individual books and chapters within Oxford Handbooks Online via DOIs.
Federated searching
Oxford Handbooks Online is not Z39.50 compliant. The site is however SRU 1.1 compliant.
Oxford Handbooks Online can interact on an HTTP level (Search and Link in the case of MetaLib) using standard search syntax. See http://oho-stage.prov.ingenta.com/oso/public/faq_oho.html#B16 for further details.
MARC records
MARC 21 records (AARC2, SACO, NACO) are available to download by subject free of charge to aid cataloguing.
Metadata standards
Oxford Handbooks Online can be accessed by meta search software via HTTP request and supports the method="get" using a base URL (URL and further instructions at http://oho-stage.prov.ingenta.com/oso/public/faq_oho.html#B16).
Metadata on the server-side is held in the ONIX format, metadata headers are distributed in a standard journal header format to third parties such as IngentaConnect and OCLC.
Search options
Quick search from every web page.
Advanced search across full text, abstract, subject, author name, publication date, keyword or ISBN.
Bibliography search.
Cross-searching with Oxford Scholarship Online at www.oxfordscholarship.com if access rights are available
Usage statistics
Usage statistics can be downloaded and emailed, and are designed to comply with standards set by ICOLC and COUNTER (COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works, reports BR-2, BR-3 and BR-5).
Further information for subscribers is available after logging into the subscriber services page.
Authentication
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation, ATHENS, Shibboleth, IP range, username and password and referred URL.
Personalisation of the online resource
Institutions can include their logo and name on the home page as well as a customised OpenURL link resolver icon.
Accessibility
Oxford Scholarship Online complies with level A, AA, and all applicable AAA components of the web accessibility initiative guidelines.
Library support information