Very Short Introductions Support (VSI): Teaching with VSI

Benefits of using Very Short Introductions in your LMS

• Provides concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects by experts in the field.
• Acts as a gateway to more specialist literature and entices students to read around the subject.
• Link to individual titles, chapters and articles - Important: follow the deeplinking instructions provided.
• Students and staff can print or download a page or an entry for personal use only. Please note: if you want to upload content to the LMS, comply with the copyright guidelines provided for teachers.

Check out more features at the Searching and Features page.

For a list of all titles available see the page below. Please note that TAFE NSW has subscribed to the Very Short Introductions only. For more information contact your library.

Content from the Oxford Academic platform including VSI is to be used for internal educational purposes and may not be shared or posted publicly online. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in the Oxford Adademic platform for personal use (for more details see the legal notice below).

Very Short Introductions 

You can deeplink to publications, chapters or articles.

To deep link to VSI publications, use the URL from the URL field at the publication record or page and add the TAFEcat prefix: https://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/tafecatalog/index.jsp?eResource=

Deeplink to publication: https://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/tafecatalog/index.jsp?eResource=https://academic.oup.com/book/973?login=true

Deeplink to chapter: https://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/tafecatalog/index.jsp?eResource=https://academic.oup.com/book/973/chapter/137834058