December 02, 2003

Oxford Books Online

Posted by Brian

Oxford University Press has put a large number of recent books in economics, political science, philosophy and religion online here. Unfortunately you need to subscribe, or be part of an institution that does, to get to most of the best parts, but for those of us with computers attached to university networks, this is an incredibly good service. (Hat tip: Michael Green, and to Enthymeme in the comments for reminding me where I saw this.)

Posted on December 2, 2003 12:12 AM UTC
Comments

This is absolutely amazing. It’s not just recent books, either. Classics by Marcus, Lewis, Parfit, Austin and more.

Posted by Geoff Pynn · December 2, 2003 12:32 AM

Yeah I posted the same thing somewhere a few days ago. I got it from Michael Green’s weblog at Chicago.

Posted by enthymeme · December 2, 2003 01:14 AM

This is the coolest thing ever.

Posted by Jonathan · December 2, 2003 04:41 AM

Looks like it’s only available through institutions.

ie, John Q. Public can’t get his own personal subscription.

Posted by Jon H · December 2, 2003 05:23 AM

I wonder to what extent OUP is tracking what books people are looking at.. and how they are compensating authors for books that are thus not bought in hard copy. Has anyone seen a contract between author and book publisher that specifies royalties for this new scheme?

Posted by eszter · December 2, 2003 06:51 AM

I notice Harry’s School Choice and Social Justice is there.

Posted by Chris Bertram · December 2, 2003 09:37 AM

Generalizing from my own contract with OUP, I think they’re just taking 5% of the net receipts from university library subscriptions and distributing that equally among all authors with books online. So an author’s royalties are unaffected by the number of hits his online book receives.

Posted by Michael Otsuka · December 2, 2003 09:29 PM

Ah, that explains one of the bracketed-out clauses in the draft contract I just signed with OUP…

Posted by nick · December 2, 2003 11:03 PM

Many thanks for this link, it’s really great!

Posted by AB · December 3, 2003 12:35 PM
Followups

→ OUP books online!.
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