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ncorporating the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, the Berg Fashion Library (BFL) is the most comprehensive coverage of fashion studies available in the world. Distributed by OUP, BFL is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. The BFL offers cross-searchable access to an expanding range of resources on fashion that will continue to grow along with scholarship in the field – through content updates and, for Berg journal customers, the ability to crosssearch alongside Berg journal content. It includes nearly 3,000 images from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s renowned fashion collection, a dictionary of fashion terms from 900 A.D. to the present day, and an index of the top costume collections in the world, outlining a wealth of information such as strengths and number of objects held. The portal will be relevant to anyone working in, researching, or studying fashion, anthropology, theatre, art history, history, museum studies, and cultural studies. It is distributed worldwide by OUP and is available to library customers on annual subscription. Libraries buying the forthcoming print title Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion will be able to receive free access to the online resource for a limited period. Please visit www.bergfashionlibrary.com for more information.
xford University Press and the BBC are collaborating to distribute the BBC’s College of Journalism website, http://bbcjournalism.oup.com. The site will include hundreds of videos, audio clips, discussion pages, interactive modules, and text pages covering every aspect of TV, radio, and online journalism. Much of the material will feature well-known BBC TV presenters and reporters discussing subject areas such as craft skills (e.g. writing or directing video), subject briefings on topics such as climate change and the conflict in the Middle East, and the many ethical issues now facing journalists. Previously an in-house training website, the BBC recognized the inherent wealth of information conveyed by the site’s material and the value that journalism students and journalists worldwide would gain from access to the site. “Journalism schools worldwide have expressed strong interest in accessing the BBC’s content,” said Tim Fenton, who has overseen publication of the site for the BBC. “However, we at the College of Journalism recognize we have little experience in delivering these online resources to academic institutions, libraries, and reporters at news organizations around the world, and so we sought a partner with that expertise.” The BBC College of Journalism site is freely available to UK residents but will be commercialized outside the UK in line with BBC policy for other online services. UK residents fund the BBC via a licence fee. The site will be distributed by OUP outside the UK during and will be available shortly. Further details can be found at www.oup.com/online.
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xford Journals has made some new journal acquisitions so far this year and these will further reinforce the subject collections of Oxford Journals. In January, OUP announced its partnership with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) to publish the society’s most highly-cited journals: Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) and The Journal of Infectious Diseases. In 2009 CID was named one of the “100 Most Influential Journals in Biology and Medicine of the past 100 years” by the Special Libraries Association. This announcement was quickly followed by news of the acquisition of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) and The Review of Economic Studies (REStud). QJE and REStud are two of the oldest and most prestigious journals in economics. QJE is the world’s highest-ranked economics journal by impact factor, and REStud is one of the top five economics journals worldwide. The society-owned journals American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Environmental History, and Neuro-Oncology have also all begun publication with OUP this year. And the launch of both the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement has also taken place. It is hoped that these latest additions will strengthen OUP’s journals list even further, a list that now holds over 230 titles. Oxford Journals will assume publication of the IDSA journals from 1st January, 2011 and the economics journals will also move across to OUP sometime next year. For more information visit: www.oxfordjournals.org
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