Database Guide - Oxford Scholarship Online

• Access hundreds of works from Oxford University Press.
• Benefit from a regular publishing schedule, with new books added every month
• Read chapters online, or download a PDF for when you’re offline and on-the-go
• Personalize the site to suit you, saving searches, books, and chapters for quick access in future sessions

• Go to LibrarySearch or access it via the University Services on your Blackboard.
• Log in using your CCCU username and password. If you are away from campus, or connecting with your own device over Wi-Fi, you will need to include @canterbury.ac.uk after your CCCU username.
• Select Find Databases, then click on O, finally click on the link to Oxford Scholarship Online – Music Collection to open it in a new tab.

• You can browse the subjects in the tool bar e.g. field, medium, era, region, place, type or occupation. This allows you to narrow your search instantly to for example, artists or patrons.
  
  
• The medium section is particularly useful as you can search by discipline e.g. digital, multimedia and sound, film and video, photography etc.
  
  
• You can also search directly in the search bar.
  
  
• Advanced searching allows you to Modify searches to search a specified field e.g. author, title, exhibition, bibliographies etc. You can also combine terms by adding an additional term. Note this can reduce your results considerably unless you search ALL and only works best if you have a very specific query.
  
  Note: items in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists are not available and this is indicated by a red closed padlock.

Oxford University Press (OUP) states that, “we follow the general principles of web usability and universal design and, where feasible, endeavor to make the University Press Scholarship site family (UPSO) accessible to all regardless of physical or cognitive impairment or the device used. We are currently targeting adherence to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1), in order to help our users take full advantage of the accessibility features provided by their chosen device, web browser or operating system.”

You can read their full accessibility information on the OUP website.

Your Learning and Research Librarian will be able to help you make the best use of online resources. For detailed guidance, book a tutorial via the Learning Skills Hub.