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Welcome Note from the Publisher Dear OSO author Launched in 2003, Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is one of the flagship products in our online portfolio, reinvigorating research-level scholarship for an online environment, from backlist classics to up-to-the-minute frontlist releases. It offers an unequalled collection of quality works, spanning the full breadth of our academic publishing, and showcasing the highest standards in scholarship. Back in 2011 we opened the platform up to the wider community, with the launch of University Press Scholarship Online, and we are excited to be working with so many leading university presses from Yale, New York, Cornell, Columbia, Edinburgh, Manchester, and elsewhere. Recent changes include a move to monthly updating, bringing the latest scholarship online faster than ever before. Books now appear on OSO very shortly after they become available in print, meaning that your work is immediately discoverable on the open web and in library catalogues, picked up by alerting services, and available to thousands of readers across the world. OSO is also now available for customers to buy individual books, making it simple for libraries to tailor their collections and provide access to exactly what their patrons need, aiding the creation of online course packs and reading lists. In addition, after listening to requests and feedback from our customers, we will be ensuring that all of our frontlist titles in law, science, and linguistics include exact print-replica PDFs, meaning that for those books with complex presentational aspects we combine the stability of print-like presentation with the discoverability and features of XML-based HTML. OSO has allowed us to get closer to our customers and readers than ever before, helping us to learn how our content is really used for perhaps the first time in our many-centuries-long history. In light of this we will continue to grow and adapt OSO over the coming months and years, reflecting the ever-changing nature of the digital environment. We are delighted to include your work in OSO, and excited to continue to introduce new authors and customers to this essential resource. We are also very keen to get your feedback on OSO, and hope that the new features, along with ideas in this author pack, will provide opportunities for you to further promote your own work within it. Please don t hesitate to be in touch with the marketing team or with your commissioning editor if you would like to share your thoughts or views. Sincerely, Sophie Goldsworthy Editorial Director, Academic and Trade Oxford University Press 2
About Oxford Scholarship Online Spanning twenty subjects, and updating every month, OSO is a vast online library, home to thousands of scholarly works from the world-renowned academic publishing list of Oxford University Press. OSO brings together cutting-edge works from up-and-coming academics alongside those written by established and eminent names. This sophisticated, easy-to-use online platform offers quick and easy access to these books, and is an essential research tool for students, scholars, and academics. About OSO Oxford's approach to digital dissemination of such works has found the right mixture of accessibility, professionalism and elegance. Samuel Kimbriel, author of Friendship as Secret Knowing: Overcoming Isolation 3
About UPSO About University Press Scholarship Online We understand that it can be frustrating having to sort between different online resources provided by different publishers to find the content that you need. That s why, in 2011, Oxford University Press launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO), a ground-breaking online library bringing works from the world s best university presses onto a single, easy-to-use resource. Including OSO, UPSO publishes new books regularly throughout the year from an ever-growing roster of contributing presses, each adding to the variety of subjects covered on the platform. With works in almost every area of academia, no matter what your speciality be it Ancient Egyptian religions, the economies of Southeast Asia, Renaissance Literature or the founding of America you will find titles essential to your field. To find out more visit www.universitypressscholarship.com 4
Five simple steps to increase visibility and readership 1. SHARE YOUR WORK Ω If you use social or professional online networks (such as Linkedin, Facebook, or Twitter), consider sharing links to OSO on your newsfeed, timeline, and/or profile. Ω If you keep social bookmarks, add your article to your list (using the Share button), and encourage your colleagues and friends to do the same. Ω Go to your book on OSO and click on Email to send the URL to your colleagues and friends. Even if the recipient s institution does not subscribe, they can still view the abstract for free, and they will be given the opportunity to recommend OSO to their librarian. Ω Include the URL of your book in your email signature. 2. ADD TO YOUR CV Be sure to add your OSO book to your CV. All titles are peer-reviewed and you deserve credit for the online publication. The exact citation can be found by navigating OSO to your book s page, and then clicking on the Citation Export button in the top right corner. 3. LINKING Adding links to your book from the open web will help to improve your work s search rankings, and allow it to become much more discoverable by your audience. Perhaps try one of the following: Author Checklist Ω Link from your university webpage to your book on OSO, or include a link to your book from your personal webpage or blog. Ω If you are an active blogger within your academic community, you could post a comment and link to your OSO book. Ω Is your article relevant to a scholarly topic on Wikipedia? You could add it to the Bibliography for that article. See http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:how_to_edit_a_page for more information. 4. USE OSO IN YOUR TEACHING If your institution subscribes to OSO, you can include links to scholarly works in your course syllabi to ensure that students aren t set back by limited print numbers in their library, and instead can access the works online. 5. RECOMMEND OSO TO YOUR LIBRARIAN Tell your library how OSO will help students and staff at your institution, by completing our online form at www.oup.com/library-recommend 5
Stay in touch Claim your three months free access As an OSO author, we would like to offer you 3 months free online access. If you have not yet taken advantage of this offer, please email us at oxfordscholarshiponline@oup.com with the name of your subject area, title, and your institution, and we will arrange for your author subscription to commence. Stay in touch We hope you will stay involved with the project. We are very interested to hear your feedback, and are open to your ideas for improving OSO, so please maintain contact with your in-house OUP editor. Keep up-to-date with all the latest developments from OSO, including new functionality and the latest content, by subscribing to our RSS feed: www.oxfordscholarship.com/applib/newsrss You can also receive all the latest news from OUP by following us on Twitter and Tumblr, liking us on Facebook, and reading the OUPblog. Discover more at: www.oup.com/academic/connect 6
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