New for January 2008: Happy new year from Oxford University Press! The latest update to
Subscribers also benefit from two new editions — The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and A Dictionary of Contemporary World History.
In addition to these new titles, this update offers further progress with linking together of all the biographical entries in the Premium Collection, with an extra 15,000+ new links added. That brings the current total to over 20,000! Browsing and exploring the people included in Premium Collection is now even easier and more satisfying — seen through all their different contexts, the wealth of biographical content on offer can now be truly appreciated. Even better, subscribers will also be offered links to biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the American National Biography, Grove Music Online, and Grove Art Online*. Look forward to the addition of many thousands more links in forthcoming updates!
Another exciting update to the Premium Collection is the addition of three fantastic new Timelines — Settlements of North America, The American Revolution and The American Civil War. These provide a chronological account of events in North America from 1200 BCE to 1877, with each moment linked to an entry in a trusted Oxford title in the Premium Collection.
*If the subscriber also subscribes to these products.
Other recent developments
- Content updates: Recent new titles in the Premium Collection include A Dictionary of Genetics, The Encyclopedia of Mammals, The Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes, and The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine.
- Subject collections: Premium Collection subscribers can enhance their subscription with the Literature and Western Civilization Collections. These collections of distinguished reference sets are available by annual subscription exclusively to Premium Collection subscribers. Recently added to the Western Civilization collection is the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, while the Literature Collection now boasts 14 Oxford titles. Find out more!
- Quick search now includes Boolean support: In response to user requests, the Quick Search that appears on every ORO page now supports standard Boolean operators 'and', 'or', and 'not'. For more information on using Boolean operators on ORO, see the Help pages on Using the Search tools.
- Illustrations: More than 6,000 superb colour illustrations from the Visual English Dictionary - all with fully searchable captions.
- Timelines: Linking of entries to key events in 20th-century Timelines across the themes of Art and Architecture, Literature, Performing Arts, Politics and Government, Science, Technology, and Medicine, Society, and War. View sample timelines
- OpenURL: ORO is OpenURL v0.1 compliant, and librarians can add their own OpenURL resolver logo to Oxford Reference Online.
