Have you ever needed to dive into a new topic but felt overwhelmed by the amount of research? See if a Very Short Introduction can get you started!
This series offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects—from artificial intelligence to folk music to medical ethics—in 35,000 words or less.
Each one of these big little books provides intelligent and serious introductions written by experts who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make even the most challenging topics highly readable.
On our catalogue, Library Search you can search by keywords like in the screenshot below so “very short introduction” and browse through or add in Oxford to add in results for that publisher.
Or visit the OUP Very Short Introductions website directly and then filter using the subject categories. Everything from Medicine, Arts, Humanities, Law, Social Sciences to name but a few.
if you are accessing off campus then once you’re on the OUP site please click “sign in” (on the left hand menu and select Newcastle University from the list to enter your Campus ID and password.)
Oxford University Press have a range of help materials for this collection, so you might want to check out their help video.
The trial ends on April 14th 2022. To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.
Big fan of being able to access all the online very short introductions. Would be good to have this trial extended.
Thanks for your feedback Oliver, we’ve had the trial extended once for an extra 4 weeks so I don’t think OUP will be keen to extend again. We are receiving some excellent the feedback for the collection which will support a business case to add it permanently to our holdings.