PRODUCT OVERVIEW
OHIONET and Oxford University Press are pleased to offer Grove
Art Online, Grove Music Online, the Oxford
African American Studies Center, the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography and the Oxford English Dictionary for your
review during the INFOhio Vendor Preview.
Grove Art Online provides Web access to the
entire text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
It offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images
and line drawings displayed in the text of articles. It also includes links to searchable
image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and
gallery Web sites around the world.
Grove Art Online is the most comprehensive and authoritative online resource for
all research in the history of the visual arts. Reviews are available at http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/reviews.html.
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), The New Grove Dictionary
of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.). Through a
partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now
available in sound as well as notated examples. Grove Music Online includes over
3,000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
Grove Music Online launched to critical acclaim. Reviews are available at http://www.grovemusic.com/grove-owned/music/reviews.html.
Oxford
African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully
edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most
comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the
lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture.
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students,
scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in
the field. Reviews are available at
http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/reviews.jsp.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an
illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and
women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. New content is added
frequently.
The Oxford DNB has been widely acclaimed as an incredible work of reference and a
national treasure of information. Reviews are available at http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/reviews/.
Oxford English Dictionary Online is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present
and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of
international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals
to film scripts and cookery books. The Oxford English Dictionary covers words
from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia
and New Zealand to the Caribbean.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the
English language over the last millennium. Reviews are available at http://www.oed.com/about/oed-online/reviews.html.
