OVERVIEW

Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks in 17 subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, Oxford Handbooks brings together the world’s leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

Each Handbook is published on Oxford Academic, with new articles added every month to upcoming Handbooks in advance of print publication. This means that alongside online-only content, readers can find the most current, authoritative coverage in the Oxford Handbooks series alongside high-quality journals, monographs, and academic titles from Oxford University Press and its partners.

Subject coverage

Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology 

Key features

• Users can now search across all  OUP books and journals under the Oxford Academic platform, or use a dedicated page to navigate within Oxford Handbooks Online . 
• Advisory boards of subject experts ensure accuracy, authority, and objectivity and will commission online-only peer-reviewed articles expanding research in cutting edge topics.
• Articles publish online first monthly – immediately upon passing through OUP’s peer review process, ensuring that users have access to current, scholarly thought instantaneously.
• DRM-free PDFs

Further information

• Download title list from this page
• Librarian Resource Centre
• Oxford Academic User Guide
• Promotional materials and training for libraries