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Dictionaries may look like books, but they don't act like them. In this presentation of the O'Reilly Tools For Change conference, Erin McKean, Chief Consulting Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, explains the characteristics of books, why the book isn't a good form for dictionaries to take, and how the information in dictionaries could better be disseminated.
Kim Thomas, Information World Review , Wednesday 8 October 2008 at 11:50:00 Oxford Journals is to extend to 2010 its deal with online host HighWire, which publishes all 220 of Oxford University Press’s journal titles Pam Sutherland, operations director at Oxford Journals, said the HighWire publisher community was of particular importance to OUP. “Each of the partners in the HighWire community is experimenting...
From today's Publishers Lunch, deal news including details of the new Donna Tartt (long wait though): Oxford University Press editor Matt Gallaway's THE METROPOLIS CASE, the sweeping tale of unlikely quartet, bound together by the strange, spectacular history of Richard Wagner's masterpiece opera, Tristan and Isolde, to Suzanne O'Neill at Crown, by Bill Clegg at William Morris Agency (NA). Author of...
Hooray for Dial M’s 200,000th hit! On my own side, I just FINISHED revising my book, Chopin’s Polish Ballade, for Oxford University Press. I still have to muck around a bit with the musical examples, printing it out etc. and...
’Tis the season? We’ve not yet had the pleasure of the Lord Mayor’s Show but already I’ve had my first meal of sprats * and the first Word of the Year has been sighted. It is from the Oxford University Press, whose annual publication on words in the news by Susie Dent came out on Thursday. You will have no difficulty guessing the area of life from which this year’s word has been drawn: the current...
"The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has been laid off because of declining sales, which the book's publisher attributes to the proliferation of free online dictionaries [Oxford University Press] will publish future editions of the [dictionary] with the assistance of freelancers and the lexicography department in Oxford, England."...
October 1, 2008 By Ashley @ Oxford University Press Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood by Clara E. Rodríguez recounts the stories of Latino actors and actresses from the era of silent film to the present...
Oxford University Press recently published a book with Jewish stories and folktales titled Leaves from the Garden of Eden . I haven't seen the book but this excerpt contains a Rosh Hashanah story about the Rashbash, his father the Rashbatz, and their legendary miraculous rescue from imprisonment ( link ). The Rashbash, by the way, has a fascinating responsum about the theology of Rosh Hashanah (no....
Oxford University Press emailed The Engine Room this morning to inform us that the OUP UK Word of the Year – "as chosen by Countdown's Susie Dent" – is 'credit crunch'. You can see Susie pictured here on the front cover of her new book, Words of the Year , which is published by OUP. I suspect some kind of tie-in. Anyway, I can understand the arguments for 'credit crunch' as word of the year: it's highly...
When Oxford University Press invited me to attend the Oxford English Dictionary’s 80th anniversary celebrations in Oxford, I was thrilled but ready to decline. Traveling to England would be fun, but impossible. (Have you looked at the exchange rate lately') Then they offered to foot the bill. As a rule I’m [...]
By Love, Alan C STANFORD, P. KyIe. Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 234 pp.
