University Libraries

University Libraries is happy to announce that a new full-text database, Oxford University Press Journals, is now available to the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Libraries. Oxford University Press has become widely recognized as a premier publisher of journals. VIVA is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with the Press so that students and faculty at public higher education institutions in Virginia will have online ac cess to 111 periodical titles in the fields of the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Furthermore, the Press is scheduled to make available another 50 electronic titles in 2001. The full text of these online journals is generally available f or the past several years, though abstracts of articles date back additional years.

Articles are available in PDF and/or HTML formats.

An alphabetical list of the titles with easy-to-read holdings and abstract information is on the Online Journals page (for Oxford U.Pr.) at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/online/ From here r eaders can either click on any of 26 subject fields or on a particular title. They can browse articles from a current journal or select articles from back issues. Home pages of individual journals feature descriptive summaries of the publications, title s of similar OUP journals, instructions for would-be contributors, and editorial information such as editors' names, snail mail and email addresses, phone numbers, and FAX numbers.

Where appropriate, special features are also included. The home page for Early Music, for example, has links from articles to both audio sound clips and facsimile reproductions of source documents.

Other features make the OUP journals particularly useful for researchers. By subscribing to "Content Alerting", students and faculty in Virginia can regularly receive by email the latest table of contents of any OUP periodical(s). They can perform keywo rd searches of the contents of one issue of a title or all its issues in the database. And to answer students' often-asked question, "Which index covers this periodical?" help is only a few mouse clicks away: students need only go to the home page of the journal and click on "About this Journal." The "Abstracting and Indexing Services" section lists the various reference works that cover that particular publication.

Whatever the subject area, all of these features will help keep Virginia students and faculty on the cutting edge of academic research.

To access Oxford University Press Journals when on campus, go to the libraries homepage (http://library.gum.edu) and then click "Alphabetical List" under Databases, or use the URL, http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/online.

Access to Oxford University Press Journals is restricted to faculty, staff and students of George Mason University, and will require access through a proxy server when used off campus. (See http://magik.gmu.edu/lso/proxy.html for more information.)