Welcome to the Oxoniensia archive.

The archive contains only a small number of articles from the earliest years of publication. It is a long term aim to complete archiving to around 1970, after which volumes are still freely available. As a completely separate exercise, the committee is investigating publication of Oxoniensia on the web.

The simplest way to find an article is to use the contents form. This may be used to search for articles by words in the title, by author or by publication date. The complete table of contents is available, so that even if the article you want is not online you will find its volume and page number. If the article is available then the title will link to it.

Where complete volumes have been scanned, it is also possible to browse by volume. This is the only way to access features like book reviews that are not in the table of contents.

Please note that the documents are in Word format. Most word processors can read this, as can the free editor WordPad that comes wit Windows, but you may have to download the article rather than read it in Internet Explorer. You can download articles by right clicking the title and selecting Save Target As.

Articles that contain graphics can be quite large. If you are using a slow connection there will be a delay because the whole article must be downloaded before any of it can be viewed.

We considered and rejected options that would have made the digital archive a page by page copy of the original journal. Given the non-standard page size of the printed journal, this would have been very hard to achieve. However, the text contains a bookmark at the start of each printed page, so the reader should have no difficulty finding a particular page. To find page 99 simply go to bookmark p99.

Figures are numbered as in the original volume, but removing the code in the first figure number of an article will reset numbering to 1. Cross references are intended to survive this treatment as well as repagination. Footnotes are numbered sequentially through the article.

Plates posed a special problem. Scanned as greyscale images suited for 600dpi printing they take several megabytes of disc space each. With the early volumes it is doubtful whether the plates were ever of this quality, so that such plates are a gratuitous waste of our limited disc space and the user's download time. We have settled reluctantly on scanning as greyscale at web resolution, which means that the images look acceptable on the screen but make blurry prints. By the time we reach recent years with their very high quality images this will be a more serious issue than it is with the already blurry aerial photographs of the nineteen forties, but we may hope that by then the units in which we measure disc space and bandwidth will have had several zeroes added.

Plates are not included with the relevant articles because including them would have made download times intolerable. All plates are available from the volume page. In due course we intend to link articles to plates as well.

The committee would welcome feedback on the usefulness of this archive. If you find errors in individual articles, or problems such as links that don't work, please let us know. The feedback form below may be used.