Oxford University Press has released Oxford Index, a free search and discovery tool for searching across Oxford University Press content. Initially, Oxford Index includes approximately 250,000 free ‘index cards’, each representing a single OUP article, chapter, journal or book. Index cards display key information (including abstracts and keywords) about a work and serve as a starting point for finding relevant material.
The Oxford Index currently includes:
• All content (more than 80,000 chapters from 7,200 titles) from University Press Scholarship Online (including Oxford Scholarship Online)
• All content (over 3,400 chapters from 100+ titles) from Oxford Handbooks Online
• A collection of more than 150,000 recent articles from 235 Oxford Journals
Oxford Index Beta will continue to evolve, with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new content items and further enhancements to site functionality, leading up to the official launch of the Oxford Index in March 2012.
OUP would like feedback. You can fill out their survey form or contact OUP at oxfordindex@oup.com
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