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• Reference Services
• Sept. 07
• Issue: 215

Coming in September: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online!

OUP launches its OLDO resource with bilingual Spanish, French, Italian and German dictionaries in September; if you request a trial now, you’ll be notified as soon as the resource goes live. Russian and Chinese are the next two languages to be featured in OLDO. They will be available in December of 2007. Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Polish, Romanian, Urdu, Hebrew and other language dictionaries are in development.

Some of the features available in OLDO include a “keyboard palette” alongside each search that provides users with quick access to accented characters in every language, and the ability to search based on part of speech, the level of formality desired, or geographical variant. Definitions include mouse-over explanations of parts of speech and phonetic symbols. Dictionaries are updated every six months.

Access for OLDO is subscription-bases, with prices starting at $555.00 for a single simultaneous user for academic or public libraries. For K-12 libraries, the price is $355.50 if this is your only OUP subscription. Bundle pricing is available if you subscribe to additional OUP databases.

Contact Jen Stelling at Nylink (stellingj@nylink.org) to request your trial now for OLDO, or get more information http://nylink.org/reference/oldo.cfm on pricing, or download a brochure: http://nylink.org/reference/pdf/oldoflier.pdf. Take a look at the interface at http://www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com/.

OCLC Reference and FirstSearch Contact Information

For more information about OCLC FirstSearch, please contact Nylink’s Joyce Rambo (ramboj@nylink.org) or Jennifer Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org).