The MIT Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch MIT Press Scholarship Online on OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality.
Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO streamlines the research process by making disparately published monographs easily accessible, highly discoverable and fully cross-searchable via one online platform. Research that previously would have required users to jump between a variety of books, and disconnected websites can now be concentrated through a single search engine.
UPSO seeks to create an individually-branded home for monographs from each participating university press just as it has done for Oxford Scholarship Online while allowing highly intuitive tools to deep search across all the content in the program. As such, UPSO will be the premier online research tool - for scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students - and an essential resource for all academic libraries.
UPSO provides academics, libraries, and partner presses the highest quality scholarly content across 24 subject areas. This includes a vast and growing number of titles, all with abstracts and keywords at both the book and chapter level. All UPSO content is available in XML, which provides deep tagging and better search results. Content can also be saved and downloaded to PDF. Content is fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable, with clickable citations from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL and DOI-linking support.
Additionally, UPSO allows users to streamline research through a single online platform. It can be easily integrated into library systems and updated frequently with new content. It offers full customer support services as well as flexibility and choice in purchasing models, and is fully mobile optimized for use on smartphones and tablets. Further, it increases discoverability and usage of university press scholarly materials and offers university presses unique opportunity to create an XML digital workflow and join a highly successful online scholarship platform, reaching the global academic market at low distribution costs.
