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Scholarly journals

OUP has also been a major publisher of academic journals, both in the sciences and the humanities. It has been noted as one of the first university presses to publish an open access journal (Nucleic Acids Research), and probably the first to introduce Hybrid open access journals.

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OUP's contribution to typography and presswork

Printer to the University Horace Hart. It has lent its name to the Oxford comma.

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Clarendon Bursaries

Since 2001, Oxford University Press has financially supported the Clarendon Bursaries, which are graduate scholarships open to Oxford University students liable to pay tuition fees at the overseas rate. Over 160 new awards have been made for the 2008-09 academic year.

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Notes

  1. ^ OUP Report & Accounts, 2006/07
  2. ^ http://www.oceanalaw.com/pdf/Oxford%20Press%20Release%20PDF.pdfPDF (9.47 KiB)
  3. ^ Harry Carter, A History of the Oxford University Press (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), pp 22-23.
  4. ^ Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 16
  5. ^ E. Huws Jones, Mrs Humphrey Ward, (London, 1973) quoted in Richard Symonds, Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? (London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986) p. 10.
  6. ^ Sutcliffe, OUP: An Informal History p. 16
  7. ^ Peter Sutcliffe, An Informal History of the OUP (Oxford: OUP, 1972). p. 24
  8. ^ See for example Simon Winchester, The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words (London: Viking, 1999).
  9. ^ OUP Archives housed at OUP Headquarters, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, UK. File headed 'Henry Frowde, late publisher'
  10. ^ H.S. Milford was to say that he could only explain the imprints with 'a good half hour's disquisition'. OUP Archives, Milford's Letterbooks Vol. 31 fol. 126, Milford to Sidney Lee, 17 June 1910.
  11. ^ OUP Archives, Delegates' File DUP/C/3/13
  12. ^ See 'Henry Frowde's Letterbooks' in the OUP Archives for details of the day to day running of the London Business.
  13. ^ See chapter two of Rimi B. Chatterjee, Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (New Delhi: OUP, 2006) for the whole story of Gell's removal.
  14. ^ Milford's Letterbooks
  15. ^ Ngugi wa Thiongo, ‘Imperialism of Language’, in Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro and Ngugi wa Thiong’o (London: Currey, 1993), p. 34.
  16. ^ For an account of the Sacred Books of the East and their handling by OUP, see chapter 7 of Rimi B. Chatterjee, Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (New Delhi: OUP, 2006).
  17. ^ Rimi B. Chatterjee, 'Canon Without Consensus: Rabindranath Tagore and the "Oxford Book of Bengali Verse"'. Book History 4:303-33.
  18. ^ See Rimi B. Chatterjee, 'Pirates and Philanthropists: British Publishers and Copyright in India, 1880-1935'. In Print Areas 2: Book History in India edited by Swapan Kumar Chakravorty and Abhijit Gupta (New Delhi: Permanent Black, forthcoming in 2007)
  19. ^ See Simon Nowell-Smith, International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria: The Lyell Lectures, University of Oxford, 1965-66 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).
  20. ^ OUP Archives, Milford's Letterbooks Vol. 25 fol. 63, Milford to Professor Henzell, 21 October 1909.
  21. ^ OUP Archives, Milford's Letterbooks Vol. 27 fol. 44, Milford to Henzell, 11 January 1910, and noting.
  22. ^ OUP Archives, Milford's Letterbooks Vol. 141 fol. 623, Milford to McNeely, 19 November 1931.
  23. ^ Kenneth T. Jackson, ed : The Encyclopedia of New York City p. 870.: 1995; Yale University Press; The New-York Historical Society.
  24. ^ OUP Archives, Milford's Letterbooks Vol. 27 fol. 215, Milford to Cobb, 21 January 1910.

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Bibliography

Please note: Much of this article is based on Chapters 1 and 2 of Rimi B. Chatterjee's Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006). The author has allowed this limited use of her work, but the book itself is of course protected by copyright.

Unpublished sources

OUP archives held at OUP Headquarters, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford. File headed ‘Henry Frowde, late Publisher’, H.S. Milford’s Letterbooks, Henry Frowde’s Letterbooks, Secretary’s Letterbooks, File DUP/C/3/13

Noel L. Carrington, ‘Initiation into Publishing’, in ‘Ebb Tide of the Raj’, unpublished memoir in the holdings of the Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library.

Published sources

Harry Carter, A History of the Oxford University Press, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).

Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).

Peter Sutcliffe, An Informal History of the OUP (Oxford: OUP, 1972).

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