Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the creation of an online platform for university press monograph content. Having redeveloped the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO), OUP is launching University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) and inviting the University Press community to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment. It seeks to offer the search and discovery functionality that has reportedly marked the ongoing success of OSO.
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.
The first phase of content from participating partner presses include Fordham University Press (Fordham Scholarship Online/FSO); the American University in Cairo Press (Cairo Scholarship Online/CSO); the University Press of Kentucky (Kentucky Scholarship Online/KSO); University Press of Florida (Florida Scholarship Online/FLASO); and Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong Scholarship Online/HKSO). Additional presses are signing up to participate and OUP expects to add their content to UPSO in March 2012. Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh Scholarship Online/ESO) and Policy Press (Policy Press Scholarship Online/PPSO) are just two additional presses slated for the March 2012 update.
UPSO's mission is to create an individually-branded home for monographs from each participating university press just as it has done for OSO while allowing highly intuitive tools to deep search across all the content in the programme. UPSO is projected as the premier online research tool — for scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students — and an essential resource for all academic libraries.
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