The Oxford Index underbar

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography now features the Oxford Index underbar, a free tool that generates links to related content from over a dozen trusted Oxford University Press online resources, including scholarly monographs, journal articles, reference entries, and more. Click here for a guided tour.

• What is the Oxford Index?
• The Oxford Index underbar
• How to search using the Oxford Index underbar

What is the Oxford Index?

The Oxford Index is a free search and discovery tool. It uses smart-linking technology to allow users to see related content links when they’re searching within Oxford’s online resources. The Index is designed to help you begin your research journey by providing a single, convenient search portal for trusted scholarship from Oxford and our partners, and then point you to the most relevant related materials – including journal articles, scholarly monographs, book chapters, and entries in Oxford reference works.

The Oxford Index contains a cross-searchable set of nearly one million “index cards”, each representing a single article, book chapter, journal, or book. Index pages display key information (including abstracts and keywords) about an item, helping you to judge the relevance of that content for your research.

To learn more about the Oxford Index, please visit What’s New, take a guided tour, sign up to attend a live demonstration of the site.

The Oxford Index underbar

The Oxford Index underbar makes it easy to use the Oxford Index when searching within other Oxford resources. It is a smart tool designed to guide and broaden your research by generating related content links drawn from Oxford's array of academic resources. One search brings together OUP online content and unlocks connections in a way not previously possible. For example, if you’re researching “Churchill” in the Oxford DNB, the underbar will draw from a variety of Oxford content to offer related links from trusted resources. Click on the arrows located at the bottom of your browser to expand the underbar and see how it can enhance your search experience—or click here for a guided tour.

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How to search using the Oxford Index underbar

Accessing results from the OI underbar through a quick search: Type or paste the term you want to find in the quick search box. Click ‘Go’ or press Enter. The results of your search are automatically displayed in the OI underbar at the bottom of the page (as illustrated above). Click on a link to read more about the topic in the chosen OUP resource.

For more information about the Oxford Index discovery service, watch our video or go to oxfordindex.oup.com.

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