Monday 1 June 2009

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection

Oxford Reference Online

The Premium Collection includes over 175 titles, updated regularly with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals. This means a total of over 1.4 million entries, including longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.

Subscribers to the Premium Collection also benefit from improved search functionality which makes it easy to choose between longer or shorter entries from subject reference titles, definitions from English or bilingual dictionaries, and quotations.

Oxford Reference Online is updated at least three times a year with new titles, new editions, and additional features. In addition, all content in the Premium Collection is reviewed and updated regularly. For this update, over 5,500 entries have been updated, many of which are only available online in Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection! Our systematic and regular updating policy ensures current, trustworthy content from Oxford. In addition, this update includes over 13,700 brand new entries and many new illustrations.

The Premium Collection is updated regularly with new titles, new editions, new entries, full-colour maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies. Access to
Oxford Reference Online at http://www.oxfordreference.com is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus via Raven passwords.

New for March 2009:

The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors: 2nd Edition
(Print ISBN: 9780199545155)

The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors provides scientists, science writers, and all who work in scientific publishing with a comprehensive and authoritative style guide for the presentation of scientific information. In over 9,700 entries, it reflects widely accepted usage and follows the recommendations of international scientific bodies such as IUPAC and IUPAP. The dictionary gives clear guidance on such matters as spellings (American-English and British-English), punctuation, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, units and quantities, and symbols.

Revised and fully updated, this new edition of the
Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors includes feature entries on key areas, substantially increased coverage of the life sciences, and new entries in physics, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. New and revised appendices also provide useful supplementary tables including SI units, mathematical symbols, the electromagnetic spectrum, and useful online resources.

This comprehensive and authoritative A-Z guide is an invaluable tool for students, professionals, and publishers working with writing in the fields of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, astronomy, mathematics, and computer science.
Available at: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t275

New biographical linking:

New with this release are hundreds of new biographical links, including links from entries in
Oxford Reference Online to entries in Who's Who and Who Was Who, plus new links to entries in Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online, in addition to many more links between entries in Oxford Reference Online itself.

All electronic resources can be found using the links on the electronic resources pages of the University Library website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/