The University of Chicago Press has reportedly announced an agreement with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Chicago becomes the second major American university press to sign on to OUP’s e-book platform, following the University of California Press, which signed on last fall to launch California Scholarship Online, and the 10th press overall to partner with OUP on UPSO.
UPSO offers university presses their own individually-branded monograph repositories, powered by the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) platform. UPSO is part of a growing field of university press-driven competitors in the digital monograph field, including efforts by Cambridge University Press, the University Press E-Book Consortium (which merged with Project Muse Editions last year), and, an e-book effort by JSTOR, an extension of the popular non-profit e-journal platform.
UPSO content is available in XML, as well as available to download as PDF, and is fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable, with 'clickable citations' from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL and DOI-linking support. It also offers mobile functionality. The OSO platform, established in 2003, is well-known, and well-reviewed among academics.
