Short answers, pulled from the story.
Oxford University Press launched Oxford Bibliographies Online in 2010 after spending eighteen months studying how students and scholars found information. The project aimed to replace chaos with order for academic researchers.
Each subject area within the platform is managed by an editor-in-chief who oversees a board of fifteen to twenty scholars. These editorial boards curate entries written by members of their own group.
The initial launch covered only four distinct fields: Classics, Social Work, Islamic Studies, and Criminology. By 2017, the collection had expanded to include more than thirty different disciplines.
Institutional subscribers paid US$29.95 per month for the full suite at the time of debut. Pricing for these subscriptions depends on the size and type of the subscribing library.
At its debut, Oxford Bibliographies Online was described as an Anti-Google by industry observers because it positioned itself as a more authoritative and trustworthy alternative to crowdsourced knowledge repositories like Wikipedia. The goal was to provide a curated path through complex academic landscapes without the noise of unverified information.