The University of Chicago Press will partner with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with the cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Chicago Scholarship Online will launch in February 2013 providing instant and comprehensive access to the full text of nearly 300 titles of the highest academic quality in 5 subject areas – Biology, Economics and Finance, Literature, Sociology and, a new subject area for UPSO, Education.
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.
Chicago Scholarship Online provides an online hub for the best in University of Chicago Press monographs while also providing users with the latest set of highly intuitive tools to enable deep search across all the content in the UPSO 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 with the highest quality scholarly content across 24 subject areas. It includes a vast and growing number of titles: 11,000+ titles will be available at launch, 652 of which are new titles, abstracts and keywords at both the book and chapter level for each title. All UPSO content is available in XML, which provides deep tagging and better search results. Content can also be saved or downloaded to PDF, and is fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable, with clickable citations from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL and DOI-linking support. Further, it allows users to streamline research through a single online platform, and 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. Mobile functionality will be available later this year.
Additionally, UPSO helps increase discoverability and usage of university press scholarly materials. It 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.
