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  • Oxford African American Studies Center

    The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. Over 1,000 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and over 100 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content. And over 100 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.Core content: Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.

  • Oxford Art Online

    Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online

    Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Subscription includes subject bibliographies on: African Studies, Chinese Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, American Literature, Atlantic History, British & Irish Literature, Medieval Studies, Military History, Philosophy, and Renaissance & Reformation.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: African Studies

    Oxford University Press has asked leading scholars to identify the most significant themes and areas of study in their fields, recommend the best sources for exploring them, and discuss these works conceptual and empirical significance to provide a series of guided studies through the diverse approaches to a wide array of complex subjects. Explores African perspectives on art, culture, economics, geography and the environment, ancient and modern history, literature, music, politics, religion, science and thought, and society.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: American Literature

    The field of American Literature is one of the most active fields in academia today and is characterized by the many cultures, religions, and ethnicities that have contributed to the larger American literary tradition over the past 500 years. The study of literature invites trans-disciplinary collaboration with fields as varied as history, cultural studies, politics, and women’s studies making it challenging for students and scholars to stay informed about related areas of study.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History

    Art history is a vast discipline, geographically, historically, and intellectually. In its initial centuries, art history dealt with Western art, but the boundaries of the field have since expanded. Traditional emphases on European art have been reduced, as the discipline reaches world-wide dimensions in which connections as much as differences have increasingly come into focus. Originating as a study much informed by ancient art, and then by the art of the Renaissance, the historical dimension of the discipline has also continuously advanced with time. In the past half century art historians have also engaged more and more with questions of theory, method, and the history of the discipline. Oxford Bibliographies in Art History responds to these needs and offers a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History

    Atlantic history is a fast developing field of historical inquiry that operates upon new assumptions about how to understand the remarkable nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century. Its principal theme is the movement of peoples, ideas and things in the Atlantic World.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies

    The modern academic study of the Bible is a highly technical and multifaceted field. Its practitioners are often required to gain expertise in diverse areas ranging from archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies, to literary theory, feminist studies, philosophy, and theology – to name but a few. As a result, the field of Biblical Studies is incredibly dynamic, with new discoveries, new methodologies, and new perspectives continually being brought to bear on the interpretation of the Bible.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish Literature

    As a key part of Western literary and cultural history, British and Irish literature encompasses a massive range of periods, authors, and works that make it one of the most active fields in academia today. As such, this area of study invites trans-disciplinary collaboration with fields as varied as history, cultural studies, political science, and philosophy making it challenging for students and scholars to stay informed about every applicable area.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Chinese Studies

    Developed cooperatively with scholars worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across the field of Chinese Studies.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema & Media Studies

    Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies has recruited many of the finest scholars in cinema and media studies to chart a path through the information thicket and toward a carefully organized, thoroughly peer-reviewed account of the most important books, articles, and Web sites.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics

    Classical Studies comprises a vast body of scholarship: primary and secondary sources, commentaries, multiple important editions, and critique. OBO: Classics provides a reliable source of general information and lengthy bibliography on a wide array of topics concerning the ancient world.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology

    Ecology is a wide-ranging field that includes the observations and writings of plant geographers, including Charles Darwin, chemistry, physics, life sciences, geography, mathematics, computing the statistics. Ecology itself forms the underpinning of Environmental Science.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Environmental Science

    Environmental Science arose from disparate disciplines as a distinct field in the last half of the 20th century. Environmental Science includes environmental physics, chemistry, and biology; risk analysis and public health; ecosystem governance, management, and planning; social and legal issues toward sustainability; and environmental engineering.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Relations

    International relations traditionally referred to the study of foreign affairs and political interaction between states. Today, the field covers the whole complex of cultural, economic, legal, military, and political relations of all states and their component populations, as well as non-state actors and international organizations. Research and scholarship in this area has an important impact our understanding of the past and of current events. OBO International Relations offers a reliable, up-to-date, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies

    Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides on Islamic Studies.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies

    Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides on Jewish Studies.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies

    Latin American studies includes a vast range of disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science. Area studies in general have proliferated in the latter half of the twentieth century and Latin American studies in particular has been propelled forward as a distinct field of study by major international changes.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics

    Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics provides expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information readily available to them. It facilitates research by providing direct links to online library catalogs and other online resources. Organizing the resource around discrete subject entries will allow for quick and easy navigation that users expect when working on screen.

  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Literary and Critical Theory

    Literary theory has become the hegemonic methodology for the study of text and is often regarded both as a sub-discipline in itself and as a critical tool through which to liberate deeper and more complex meanings from texts. It encompasses a massive range of topics, including periods, movements, themes and works that make it a dynamic field of study. It is constantly evolving as writers from different areas make connections with what might be termed mainstream literary theory and these writers, in turn, become part of the theoretical enterprise. While this presents problems for the classifier and the bibliographer, it is an example of the dynamic and constantly-developing aspects of the field that have made it such an indispensable tool in the area of reading texts, be these texts written, iconic or socio-cultural. As such, this area invites trans-disciplinary collaboration with fields as varied as literature, history, cultural studies, and philosophy making it challenging for students and scholars to stay informed about every applicable area. Given that literary theory draws from other disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, the social sciences and work from non-Anglophone cultures and traditions, the very scope which makes it a necessary tool for contemporary academics and intellectuals can be off-putting in terms of locating a starting point for any specific inquiry. Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory will offer clearly-signposted pathways through the different areas, and will make clear references to the other disciplines which feed in to, and are often transformed by, literary theory.