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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
Using texts beyond the OSO site
The Oxford Scholarship Online site offers several ways for you to make onward use of included texts, after you close your online session
Emailing
You can use email to send a colleague (or yourself) the results of a search or, within an individual title, the table of contents or a chapter abstract. (Note: certain accents and special characters may be lost from the text when it is emailed.) Wherever you see this icon:
you can click it to go to the email form and send the current page contents.
Enter the destination email address in the To textbox at the top, and your own email address in the From box. The Subject line of the email already holds a generic message, but you may change it if you wish. Enter your covering message text in the Message box, then click go to send the email. A feedback screen will confirm the message was sent, showing its contents. Use your browser's Back function to return to the original page.
When you receive an email sent from OSO, the text of the emailed entry is shown in the body of the email. A URL to Oxford Scholarship Online will appear at the end of the email. If you are an IP subscriber to Oxford Scholarship Online, clicking on the link will take you to the entry online. If you are a username and password subscriber, or have no subscription to the Oxford Scholarship Online site, you will be taken to the Home page of the public site, where subscribers with a user name and password can log in.
If you have a valid subscription to the Oxford Scholarship Online site, you can also view the entry online by copying the URL cited at the bottom of the emailed entry into your web browser's Address or Location bar. IP access subscribers will be taken straight to the entry. Username and password subscribers must log in first.
For information about how we use your personal details (such as your email address) see our Privacy Policy.
Enter the destination email address in the To textbox at the top, and your own email address in the From box. The Subject line of the email already holds a generic message, but you may change it if you wish. Enter your covering message text in the Message box, then click go to send the email. A feedback screen will confirm the message was sent, showing its contents. Use your browser's Back function to return to the original page.
When you receive an email sent from OSO, the text of the emailed entry is shown in the body of the email. A URL to Oxford Scholarship Online will appear at the end of the email. If you are an IP subscriber to Oxford Scholarship Online, clicking on the link will take you to the entry online. If you are a username and password subscriber, or have no subscription to the Oxford Scholarship Online site, you will be taken to the Home page of the public site, where subscribers with a user name and password can log in.
If you have a valid subscription to the Oxford Scholarship Online site, you can also view the entry online by copying the URL cited at the bottom of the emailed entry into your web browser's Address or Location bar. IP access subscribers will be taken straight to the entry. Username and password subscribers must log in first.
For information about how we use your personal details (such as your email address) see our Privacy Policy.
Citing titles
We have provided a citation for each book in Oxford Scholarship Online, so that whenever you cite a title from the service, you can give a full citation for the source. Each citation also includes a URL which readers can use to find the original book. To see this citation, click on the link How to cite this title, found in the left navigation bar when you are looking at a single title.
If you wish to note an entry page for future online reference, always use the URL (web address) shown in the citation information. This is because the URL shown in your browser's address or location bar may include coded system information specific to your user login and session. If you use the URL shown in your browser, it may not work properly for you or other users during a future session. If you use the URL given in the entry's citation information, you will always go to the correct page.
If you wish to note an entry page for future online reference, always use the URL (web address) shown in the citation information. This is because the URL shown in your browser's address or location bar may include coded system information specific to your user login and session. If you use the URL shown in your browser, it may not work properly for you or other users during a future session. If you use the URL given in the entry's citation information, you will always go to the correct page.
Printing
To print any page from the Oxford Scholarship Online site, simply use the Print Printer Friendly link in the left-hand navigational area:
A preview window will appear with the correctly formatted pages, minus the site navigation components. This may not always produce a perfectly-formatted reproduction of what you see on screen but will allow more content to be printed.
