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Dear Colleagues, Those of you in the UK Further and Higher Education sectors will know that the JISC is finalizing a national agreement with Oxford University Press for the Oxford English Dictionary Online. This agreement is going to the JISC's Content Working Group for formal endorsement on 19 April. In the meantime interested colleges and universities can get access via a free trial. Information about this is appended below. Cheers, Alicia Try out the new Oxford English Dictionary Online for free... "The OED will instantly become the internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book" The Guardian (11/3/00) "Using OED Online is simple and, unlike a paper dictionary, it can be easily accessed on a number of levels. One can, for example, look up terms by their definitions and etymologies rather than head words." The Sunday Times (12/3/00) Launched on March 14th, OED Online has already been the subject of widespread press, radio and TV coverage, and this is set to continue. If you would like to offer your library members free access to OED Online until the end of April, simply contact Susanna Lob at Oxford University Press (email: [log in to unmask], tel: 01865 267229; fax 01865 267811). JISC has negotiated a special pricing deal on OED Online for UK higher education and further education institutions, and more details can be found at HEIs: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub00/c02_00.html FEIs: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub00/c01_00.html ---------------------- Alicia Wise JISC Collections Manager Old Library King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS [log in to unmask] (020) 7848 2938 office (020) 7848 2556 direct line (020) 7848 2939 fax %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%