Help

Tip: the Help pages are context-sensitive so that, for example, if you were looking at a book's table of contents page and clicked the Help button, you would have been taken straight to the Help section about full text content. You can of course go directly to another topic by using the Help menu in the left-hand navigation area.

 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Oxford Scholarship Online
 Downloadable PDF of the online Help text

Note: this section gives pointers for quick entry into OSO. For more detailed information, start from the Introduction.

When you start an Oxford Scholarship Online session, you will find yourself on the Home page. From here you can:

• Launch a search – type one or more words into the Quick Search box at the top left of the page, and click Go or press Return on your keyboard. See the Help section on Quick Search for more on this. For search options that allow you to make your search more specific, follow the Advanced Search link just below the Quick Search box.
• Browse through a particular subject area – click SUBJECTS at the top of the page, then on your chosen main subject below. Choose a sub-discipline area, or click on Title Index in the left-hand sidebar for an A-Z of titles restricted to your main subject choice
• Browse through titles of all the books contained in OSO – click the TITLES at the top of the Home page. This gives links to the full text of all the OSO titles, grouped into pages by initial letter. For an unlinked, static list of titles choose a link below:

Biology
Business and Management
Classical Studies
Economics and Finance
History
Linguistics
Literature
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Religion