hi I'm Jessica chestnut senior online
product specialist with Oxford
University Press Oxford reference is our
comprehensive general reference resource
containing content from subject
dictionaries encyclopedias bilingual
dictionaries language dictionaries
timelines color graphs charts and images
all cross searchable in an online
platform in this video I'd like to show
you how to navigate Oxford reference and
how their variety of content is
presented from the homepage of Oxford
reference you have a number of options
as far as navigating to the content
you're looking for if we start at the
top your first choice would be a search
you can either run a quick search right
here in the white quick search toolbar
or jump over to the advanced search link
to above the quick search bar from every
page below that you have options to
browse into the content first of all by
subject or toggling over to reference
type enables you to look at for example
just the quotations content or just the
time lines content scrolling down
further you'll notice that the homepage
may look different when you revisit the
site with frequent updates we will
highlight newly added content in the
main area here as well as highlighting
news down below the news is available
via an RSS feed as is the did you know
feature over here which will give you
facts of the day biographies of the day
quotations of the day and other fun
facts from the site
well let's get right into the content
I'm going to go up to the quick search
bar here and do a quick search for
Romanticism this will search across the
full text of the entire site and all of
the different varieties of content
included there in scrolling down you'll
notice that our first option at the top
of the screen is to toggle between entry
and book results this really has to do
with where your search term appears
going down further you'll see your
actual search terms are listed as well
now if we had multiple search terms here
I could eliminate one or more to broaden
my search back out below that we have
did you mean features this will offer
you related content that may be a little
bit more specific if you didn't get
quite what you were looking for and then
going down into the main results of our
search the very first thing I'm
presented is this overview we'll look at
that in just a moment but it's going to
encapsulate all of the related content
on the site into one quick reference
page going down you'll see all of the
different articles that have been
returned with Romanticism either as the
article title or within the full text
elsewhere as well from a wide variety of
titles and subject areas each return
will indicate which subject the item
came from as well as what reference type
it is when it was the most recently
updated and the length of the article as
well so you get some context before you
would follow through to the full text
your search will return results from all
of the content within Oxford reference
to allow you to see the full range of
answers available from the different
reference types to limit your list of
results to just those you have full
access to select the provided by library
box to the left of the screen on the
left hand side in the blue area you have
filters to further narrow down your
search results by reference type is the
first followed by subject and
sub-discipline listings the plus signs
here indicate that you can expand these
items to look at sub-discipline
categorizations here and below that by
content set and by results that have
images available
now let's go into that romanticism page
here we'll be given an overview of the
topic itself this would apply for
individuals events and key concepts then
down below you'll find links to
highlights of the reference content
available on the site on this specific
topic again from a wide variety of
titles with the contextual help of word
count as well as title below that we
have quick links to broaden our search
back out across all of Oxford reference
or to see editorially selected related
items on the left hand side you'll see
some of those related items and you'll
also see related overviews here if I
jump over to John Keats for instance
we'll go to an overview page on the poet
you'll similarly have a quick reference
field up at the top a quick bio a quick
bit of information of why he's
noteworthy but one thing that's
different when you're looking at an
author is after the listing of reference
entries we will provide you with
reference content on his actual works on
the actual poetry of John Keats here
the way you would save content is simply
clicking this disk icon at the top of
your entry from here you can tag it in
customizable tags that enable you to
establish a relationship between content
across the site the Save button will
disappear once you've saved content so
you're not redundantly saving anything
and the other buttons that are around
your Save button also remain with you
throughout the site they include the
option to print the content to export
citations wherein you would choose which
format you'd like you would get a text
preview and then you would be able to
choose which software program you might
use to manage your citations next to
that is the option to email this entry
to share it via social networking sites
or to enlarge or shrink the text now
let's get into some other types of
content I'd like to show you the
timelines these are also entirely free
and outside of the subscriber wall like
the overview pages so when your users
are looking for something via Google or
the open web they can find their way to
their valuable Oxford content so now
we're looking at the timeline for the
1960s scrolling down you'll see short
blurbs describing key events and if
you're interested in learning more about
them for example this Liverpool group of
musicians called Long John and the
silver Beatles simply click this expand
button and it will show you the
pertinent entry on the Beatles in the
Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world
similarly you can click the links below
to find out how this event may be
important in other timelines for example
within a timeline pertaining to the
United Kingdom as a whole as opposed to
just the nineteen sixties worldwide you
can similarly jump to a specific year at
the top of your timeline right here in
either BCE or seee format and you can
browse to other timelines on the
left-hand side both regionally and
thematically
all of this content is savable as well
so if you find yourself studying a lot
of events in the 1960s you might want to
save this timeline as well now I'd like
to show you the advanced search it's
linked to from the top of the screen on
top of your quick search bar and it
enables you to search within every bit
of text within an article you can also
search within the key publication
details like the author name or a book
title for instance you can even search
specific things like an ISBN pertaining
to the print publication any of these
items can be searched in any combination
and any relationship you can further
more narrow down your results by
reference type down below with these
check boxes once you've spent some time
on the site and saved content that's
valuable to you you can revisit it by
going to the teal bar at the top of the
screen where my content and my searches
live these are available with a single
click to take you right back to that
exact entry or to rerun that exact
search or if you forgot to save
something we will have your recently
viewed and recently searched items as
well saved for you right here you can
easily save them with a simple click of
your mouse if you want to see all of
your content together go to my work at
the top of the screen it's organized
into tabs most recent will include both
searches and entries from the past 30
days my content will include just text
content agnostic of date and my searches
will also have just searches but
regardless of date my account is where
you would update your username or
password and from this area you would
essentially be able to follow back the
links to the original content rerun a
search to find out what new content has
been added to the site that meets your
needs or edit or cite the content that
you already have
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