Oxford University Press Special Trial (available until July 13th, 2020)

2020/04/17

The APU Library is making the e-book and Database collections shown below available for a limited time (available until July 13th, 2020). Please use these books for your studies and research.


(Accessing the Collection from Off-Campus)
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection is required to access e-books and databases from off campus. Please refer to the site below for details on how to set up a VPN connection.


https://en.apu.ac.jp/academic/system/basic_support/


1. Oxford Scholarship Online


https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/


Access a library of over 17,000 outstanding academic books from Oxford University Press.
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly-expanding library, providing easy access to thousands of books across the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press (OUP). Spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law, OSO is an essential research resource for student, scholar, and academic alike, no matter what your subject specialty.


2. Oxford Handbook Online


https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/


Oxford Handbooks Online is guided by a world-class Editorial Board that bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.


3. Oxford Research Encyclopedias


https://oxfordre.com/


Oxford University Press has invested in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias to meet this challenge. Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, we are developing new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.


4. University Press Scholarship Online
(available until June 13th, 2020)


https://www.universitypressscholarship.com/


University Press Scholarship Online offers 18,000 titles available in 28 subject areas, from Oxford and 17 other leading university presses.
UPSO brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. Aggregating scholarly content from leading university presses, UPSO offers an unparalleled research tool, making disparately published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform.


5. Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions Online


https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/


A short introduction to Very Short Introductions
The perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly
Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.
Since the series was launched it has continued to offer new books each year for students and scholars, offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.


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