Browsing Editions

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Browsing by editions

Moving around the Browse list

Only viewing full text provided by library

Narrowing your choices

Removing a criterion

Omitting duplicate editions

Searching within the Browse list

Outputting the Browse list

Browsing by editions

1. If you are on the Home page, click Browse Editions. From any other page, click browsingbuttonimg and choose Browse Editions.

2. An alphabetical list of editions is displayed. Each record consists of the a thumbnail of the cover of the print book, the edition’s title and editor, and details of its print and online publication dates.

3. Browse the list using the cursor or by selecting a page number. To move directly to titles starting with a particular letter, type it into the Jump to: box and click .

4. To open any item, click on it.

5. The Edition page is displayed, with the book’s details at the top and the table of contents in the main part of the screen. Use the [+] and [-] buttons to browse the headings in the table of contents.

6. Click on a section in the table of contents to open it. It opens on the Work page.

If you want to restrict your experience of the site to Classics editions only, click on OSEO Classics.

Moving around the Browse list

Moving between pages

The number of pages is shown at the top and bottom of the list on the right. To move to any of the numbered pages, click on it.

Items per page

The standard number of items is 10 per page, but you can alter this up to a maximum of 100.

Sorting the list

The entries in the list are listed alphabetically by edition title.

You can also choose to order them by:

· Edition Title - Z to A

· First Published Date (earliest first)

· First Published Date (latest first)

Only viewing full text provided by library

Depending on your subscription the full text of some works may not be available.

By default, the Browse list shows all works regardless of whether you have full-text access to them or not. To view only those works to which you have full-text access, click

 

Narrowing your choices

You can narrow down your results using the options to the left of the list. To toggle between displaying and hiding these options, click the appropriate  or .

To restrict the list to a particular genre (or more than one), select it and click . The Browse list is updated.

When you do this, the genre is added to the search terms at the top of the Browse list:

To revert back to the previous list, click the .

To clear all your search terms, click .

By author

To restrict the list to a specific author, choose his or her name from the list by clicking on it. To view more author names, click .

Your selection is added to the search terms at the top of the list.

To revert back to the previous list, click the .

To clear all your search terms, click .

By date of edition

To restrict the list to editions published within a specific date range (e.g. from 1900 to 1990), type your date range into the box and click . The Browse list is updated.

Your dates are added to the search terms at the top of the Browse list:

To revert back to the previous list, click the .

To clear all your search terms, click .

By series

To restrict the list to editions in a particular Oxford series, choose it from the list.

The Browse list is updated.

Your series is added to the search terms at the top of the Browse list:

To revert back to the previous list, click the .

To clear all your search terms, click .

By editor

To restrict the list to a specific editor, choose his or her name from the list by clicking on it. To view more names, click .

Your selection is added to the search terms at the top of the list. To revert back to the previous list, click the . To clear all your search terms, click .

Removing a criterion

Once you have refined the Browse list, you may have more than one criterion listed at the top of the page.

Any of these criteria may be removed by clicking the  next to it.

The list is automatically updated.

To clear all your search criteria, click .

Omitting duplicate editions

Some editions may appear in the Browse list in duplicate forms. To eliminate duplications from the list, click this checkbox.

Searching within the Browse list

You can search for a term within the entries in the Browse list:

1. Type the term you want to find into the Search within results box.

2. Click .

Outputting the Browse list

Printing

To print the current list, click . A printable version is displayed in your browser.Sending an email link

To send an email link to the current list (regardless of whether the recipient has a subscription), click . Fill in the details as appropriate. The email will contain a link to the current list only, which will be valid for the next two weeks.

Social bookmarking

To share a link to the current list on any of over 300 sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Googlemail, etc.), click  and choose one of the options.

Changing text size

To toggle between standard and large text display, use .

 

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