OUP in support of digital libraries

Main objectivesHistorical ContextWhy Xml ?Librarian Resource CentreOxford Index

Marzena Giers Fidler

5th June 2012

Product Trainer: Eastern Europemarzena.giersfidler@oup.com

Common main objectives

Oxford University Press – largest and most geographically diverse department of Oxford University. International reputation built throughdiverse publishing program (primary school schemes-works of reference)

Adheres to the University's objective:

Excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide Mission to maximise discoverability of content & scholarly dissemination

Oxford University Press (OUP) has its origins in the information technology revolution of late 15th century.

First book printed in Oxford in - 1478

More than 500 years – publications

A few years after the Gutenberg printing press was discovered

OUP - employing the new methods of printing to provide its students with educational materials

An early edition of a press printed Shakespeare anthology (spelt without the last e).

Many famous works originally published through OUP

The very first volume of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1884 - first edition of The Oxford English Dictionary begins publication

OEDMurray was to edit a work estimated to take 10 years and to cost approximately £9,000.

The Dictionary began to appear in print in 1884

The first edition was not completed until 1928, 13 years after Murray's death,at a cost of around £375,000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWlLkGEyyI

1965 - 2009

A complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date.

contains 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words, within 230,000 categories

•We operate in 51 different countries and employ approximately 5,000 people

•On average, about 7,000 new titles are published each year, in more than 40 languages, in a variety of formats – increasingly digital output

•Regular National and International prize-winners

OUP today

Our position in the publishing arena…

• Academic, Professional, & General Books, Children's Books & Children's Reference, Schoolbooks, English Language Teaching, Journals, and Music.

• Dictionaries, Sheet Music, Journals, Scholarly Monographs, Higher Education Textbooks, School Books, English Language Teaching Materials, Children's Books, Business Books, Reference and more…

• Pre-school to Secondary Level Schoolchildren; Students to Academics; General Readers to Researchers; Individuals to Institutions.

• Librarian and Teacher Support

• OxBox and Oxfordenglishtesting.com

• Oxford Bibliographies Online

OUP today

What do we publish?

Digital publishing

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• Across multiple sectors: Law, Medicine, Reference,

Academic, Trade, Journals, Dictionaries…

• 30 + online products

• Multiple data types and data models

• One very simple data strategy: XML

Why XML? eXtensible Markup Language

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<greeting>Good afternoon</greeting>

A means of marking up content and text so that it is both human and computer readable

To describe the content’s structure and meaning

Why XML? eXtensible Markup Language

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Each book contains implicit category information (reference, philosophy, author name…) which provides a taxonomy of books within the collectionWe can also establish keywords within the content.

We have a bank of controlled vocabulary within OUP

that have intellectual thought put into them.

(authorities in the fields)

Why XML? eXtensible Markup Language

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This allows for a mix of

- automated

- hand crafted/intellectual links

Why XML? eXtensible Markup Language

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We aimed to add keywords that would enrich the reader’s experience and enhance the content

’’...Much richer and much deeper form of learning can be created where one research leads to another…’’

’’…Our job is not to tell people what to think. Our job is to direct people to what we believe is the highest quality content...’’

’’…We preserve the content and make it available to students and scholars, worldwide and in perpetuity…’’

hatOxford online products

Librarian Resource Centre

www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians

Tool to help to build

- awareness of OUP’s contents -promote usage to your library users-additional training support for librarians

http://www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians/

Oxford IndexA Search and Discovery Gateway

Oxford Index - a free search and discovery tool from OUP, designed to help researchers by providing a single, convenient search portal for trusted scholarship from Oxford and our partners and point them to the most

relevant related materials – from journal articles to scholarly monographs.

Oxford IndexA Search and Discovery Gateway

For each piece of content, there is an index card that displays key information about each article, chapter, journal or book – including abstracts and keywords – helping researchers judge its relevance to their research before following links to the full text.

Oxford IndexA Search and Discovery Gateway

It offers a standardized description of every piece of Oxford content, in one place, and is also searchable from the web.

Regular contributions to fund the Clarendon Scholarships at Oxford University a programme to support postgraduate researchers from overseas

The Clarendon is Oxford’s largest University-run scholarship for international graduate students

Funded by an annual transfer from Oxford University Press

Awarded for academic excellence

On average more than £30,000 per student in funding each year

Oxford’s Clarendon Fund scholarship

10 years of supporting international graduate students at Oxford

More than 1,000 students received supportto conduct research

Arunabha Ghosh was one of the first Clarendon Scholars in 2001.

Common main objectives