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Press Release
Low cost access to the new Oxford English Dictionary Online
for Further and Higher Education Institutions in the UK and
Ireland
The crown jewel of reference works - the Oxford English
Dictionary Online - will be available at a significantly
reduced cost to all further and higher education
institutions in the UK and Ireland.
>From 1 June 2000, students and staff at subscribing
institutions will benefit from unlimited access to "the
internet's biggest, most prestigious reference work" (The
Guardian).
This opportunity comes as a result of a special 3-year
pricing arrangement negotiated by the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) of the further and high education
funding councils and Oxford University Press (OUP). Special
funding from the Further Education Funding bodies via the
JISC, together with special pricing from OUP, means that a
network licence to OED Online will cost colleges just £85
including VAT in the first year of the 3-year deal
(compared with a standard list price of £600 plus VAT).
This is the first time that further education colleges have
been able to take advantage of a JISC-negotiated deal.
This is all part of the strategy to enable students and
staff in colleges to participate fully in the government's
lifelong learning agenda by enabling access to high quality
learning resources via the Internet.
The Oxford English Dictionary Online will join other high
quality resources delivered via the Internet through the
Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).
CHEST will manage this agreement on behalf of the JISC.
Please see http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oed/ for full
details.
For more information please contact:
Alicia Wise
JISC Collections Manager
Old Library
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
(020) 7848 2556
(020) 7848 2937
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Susanna Lob
Marketing Manager
Oxford English Dictionary Online Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon St.
Oxford OX2 6DP
01865 267229
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Further Information about the Distributed National
Electronic Resource (DNER)
This is a JISC strategy for adding value to the UK's
learning, teaching and research resources. The Distributed
National Electronic Resource (DNER) is a managed
environment for accessing quality assured information
resources on the Internet which are available from many
sources. These resources include scholarly journals,
monographs, textbooks, abstracts, manuscripts, maps, music
scores, still images, geospatial images and other kinds of
vector and numeric data, as well as moving picture and
sound collections. More information is available at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/dner_vision.html
Further Information about Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world's largest
university press. It is an integral part of the University
of Oxford and governed by the Delegates of the Press, who
are appointed from the academic staff of the University.
It has been publishing for the University for over 500
years; the first book was published in Oxford in 1478.
OUP's diverse publishing programme includes scholarly works
in all academic disciplines, dictionaries and reference
books, including the flagship Oxford English Dictionary,
school and college textbooks, music, materials for teaching
English as a foreign language, business books, journals and
electronic publishing. Approximately 6,000 ISBNs were
published world wide in 1998/9, adding to a back list of
more than 30,000 titles. OUP is a strong international
publisher, with over 80 per cent of its turnover outside
the UK, generated by some 3,750 employees in over 50
countries.
For more information, please contact Susanna Lob, Marketing
Manager - Oxford English Dictionary Online, OUP, Great
Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP; tel 01865 267229; email
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Further Information about the Oxford English Dictionary
Online (OED Online)
The Oxford English Dictionary - the world's leading
authority on the history and development of the English
language since 1150 - is now available online.
In addition to offering unparalleled access to the wealth
of material contained in the 20-volume OED and 3 volumes of
Additions, online publication enables the "treasure house"
of the English language to move with the times as never
before possible.
For the first time since it was completed in 1928, the OED
is being completely revised - every word and every sense is
being fully updated to take account of the latest changes
in language and scholarship. New material from the £34
million revision programme which began in 1990 will be
released quarterly, offering online subscribers a unique
opportunity to chart the course of the English language on
an ongoing basis.
· Search the equivalent of 23 volumes of information with speed and ease
· Find a term when you know the meaning but have forgotten the word
· Find words that have come into English via a particular language
· Search for quotations from a specified year
· Search for all quotations from a particular author and/or work
· Display entries according to your needs - for the first
time you can turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant
spellings, and quotations on and off
· Gain unique online access to at least 1,000 new and revised
words each quarter
· Compare revised entries with entries from the Second
Edition to see how language has changed and how new
scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic
and cultural heritage
· Keep up to date with exciting developments from the
world's largest humanities research project through
quarterly online newsletters.
For more information please see http://www.oed.com
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Dr. Alicia Wise
JISC Collections Manager
Old Library
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
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(020) 7848 2937 office
(020) 7848 2556 direct line
(020) 7848 2939 fax
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