Grove Art and Grove Music Subscribers: Take a Survey to Win a Kindle!
Oxford University Press is conducting surveys to obtain your input for guiding Oxford on the enhancement of Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online. As an incentive, Oxford is entering all survey respondents into drawings for Amazon Kindles. In addition, Oxford encourages you to pass the survey links on to colleagues, professors, researchers, and students, directing them to provide your contact information at the end of the survey. The librarian or individual with the most referrals will be awarded $250 to spend at the OUP website (for Oxford books).
Here are the survey links:
Grove Art — http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=izEtVGCiuHyr15RgppMIlQ_3d_3d
Grove Music — http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6NxNBwCaSUQ3N0_2fvDSlZWA_3d_3d
Surveys must be completed by Friday, November 20, at 5 p.m.
OTHER GROVE ART AND GROVE MUSIC NEWS:
The Fashion Institute of Technology, including FIT’s Gladys Marcus Library, recently collaborated with Oxford to enhance Grove Art Online with the addition of content focusing on fashion as a visual art. As a result, Grove Art Online has been enriched with more than 100 new and revised articles and over 160 new images. A general introduction to fashion content in Grove Art can be accessed by clicking on “Tools & Resources” within the Oxford Art Online portal, and then following the link for “thematic guides” to the “Fashion” icon/link.
For Grove Music Online, an “Essential 20th-century Reading List” has been added to the Tools & Resources area (see link under Oxford Music Online banner). This list outlines some of the most influential writings on contemporary music, from composer tracts to periodicals to historical and theoretical studies published during the era. Hyperlinks are provided to help explore related content in Grove Music Online.
The Tools & Resources area offers several other pathways to content within and outside of Grove Music Online including an index of opera roles, music timelines, topical guides (e.g., women composers), and notably, research resources that provide detailed overviews of the types of resources (e.g., musical congress reports, periodicals, manuscript sources) and the types of institutions (e.g., libraries) that house them.
New Feature: “search within this article” (Grove Art and Grove Music) – You can now limit your search to the article you are viewing. This new functionality is particularly helpful with large articles spread over multiple pages, allowing users to search for terms within a single article, such as large country articles and articles on families. The “search within this article” box is located near the top left of each entry. Simply click on the plus sign [+] to open the search box, enter your term(s) and click “search”. The search box expands to display a convenient list of search hits along with headings to contextualize them.
If your library is not currently subscribing to Grove Art Online or Grove Music Online, and you would like to take a look, you can sign up for free 30-day trials at https://ams.oup.com/user/trial.pfm. Contact Nylink for discounted pricing at services@nylink.org.
