The old Oxford Reference Online site will remain available until 12 December 2012.
From the provider's description of the new site:
Key Features
- NEW Overview pages: Over 300,000 pages defining each unique term in Oxford Reference, together with clever onward navigation, all completely free and discoverable from the open web
- NEW Timelines: 270 free Timelines organized by time period, area, and theme, with each event linked to a free entry in Oxford Reference
- NEW Intuitive design and functionality: Navigate to content quickly and easily with enhanced linking and Overview pages
- NEW Quotations title: Oxford Essential Quotations
- Library widget: Log in to Oxford Reference quickly and easily, and choose whether to see results from all of Oxford Reference or only full text entries available via your library
- Quick & Advanced search: Catering for all levels of user, and allowing you to save time with fast, simple searching, sorting and filtering across broad or specific search terms
- Customization: Keep your research organized by saving your research journey, favourite titles, and entries, saving valuable research time
- Share content: With integrated tools including social bookmarking, email, and citation export
- Discoverability: MARC 21 records available at title level, Open URL, and fully linked to the Oxford Index site to increase discoverability and usage of library resources
- Illustrations: Many illustrated entries and articles, including colour photographs, line diagrams, maps, flags, and tables
