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6 despite that frowde became vital to oup s growth adding new lines of books to the business presiding over the massive publication of the revised version of the new testament in 1881 27 and playing a key role in setting up the press s first office outside britain in new york city in 1896 28 price transformed oup in 1884 the year he retired as secretary the delegates bought back the last shares in the business 29 the press was now owned wholly by the university with its own paper mill print shop bindery and warehouse its output had increased to include school books and modern scholarly texts such as james clerk maxwell s a treatise on electricity magnetism 1873 which proved fundamental to einstein s thought 30 without abandoning its traditions or quality of work price began to turn oup into an alert modern publisher in 1879 he also took on the publication that led that process to its conclusion the massive project that became the oxford english dictionary oed 31 offered to oxford by james murray and the philological society the new english dictionary was a grand academic and patriotic undertaking lengthy negotiations led to a formal contract murray was to edit a work estimated to take ten years and to cost approximately 9 000 32 both figures were wildly optimistic the dictionary began appearing in print in 1884 but the first edition was not completed until 1928 13 years after murray s death costing around 375 000 33 the next secretary philip lyttelton gell was appointed by the vice chancellor benjamin jowett in 1884 but struggled and was finally dismissed in 1897 34 the assistant secretary charles cannan was instrumental in gell s removal 35 cannan took over with little fuss and even less affection for his predecessor in 1898 gell was always here but i cannot make out what he did 36 contemporary era 1900 present edit by the early 20th century oup expanded its overseas trade partly due to the efforts of humphrey milford the publisher of the university of oxford from 1913 to 1945 the 1920s saw skyrocketing prices of both materials and labour paper was hard to come by and had to be imported from south america through trading companies economies and markets slowly recovered as the 1920s progressed in 1928 the press s imprint read london edinburgh glasgow leipzig toronto melbourne cape town bombay calcutta madras and shanghai not all of these were full fledged branches in leipzig there was a depot run by h bohun beet and in canada and australia there were small functional depots in the cities and an army of educational representatives penetrating the rural fastnesses to sell the press s stock as well as books published by firms whose agencies were held by the press very often including fiction and light reading in india the branch depots in bombay madras and calcutta were imposing establishments with sizeable stock inventories for the presidencies themselves were large markets and the educational representatives there dealt mostly with upcountry trade 37 in 1923 oup established a music department 38 at the time such musical publishing enterprises however were rare 39 oup bought an anglo french music company and all its facilities connections and resources 38 this concentration provided oup two mutually reinforcing benefits a niche in music publishing unoccupied by potential competitors and a branch of music performance and composition that the english themselves had largely neglected hinnells proposes that the early music department s mixture of scholarship and cultural nationalism in an area of music with largely unknown commercial prospects was driven by its sense of cultural philanthropy given the press s academic background and a desire to promote national music outside the german mainstream 40 it was not until 1939 that the music department showed its first profitable year 41 the depression of 1929 dried profits from the americas to a trickle and india became the one bright spot in an otherwise dismal picture bombay was the nodal point for distribution to africa and onward sale to australasia and people who trained at the three major depots later moved to pioneer branches in africa and southeast asia 37 in 1927 1934 oxford university press inc new york was reorganized by geoffrey cumberlege to return it to profitability from the lows of the depression years in 1945 1956 cumberlege would succeed milford as publisher to the university of oxford 42 by the end of 2021 oup usa had published eighteen pulitzer prize winning books 43 in march 2020 during the covid 19 pandemic its bookshop on the high street closed 44 on 27 august 2021 oup closed oxuniprint its printing division the closure marked the final chapter of oup s centuries long history of printing 45 clarendon press edit oup came to be known as the clarendon press when printing moved from the sheldonian theatre to the clarendon building in broad street in 1713 the name continued to be used when oup moved to its present site in oxford in 1830 the label clarendon press took on a new meaning when oup began publishing books through its london office in the early 20th century to distinguish the two offices london books were labelled oxford university press publications while those from oxford were labelled clarendon press books this labelling ceased in the 1970s when the london office of oup closed today oup reserves clarendon press as an imprint for oxford publications of particular academic importance 46 scholarly journals edit oup as oxford journals has also been a major publisher of academic journals both in the sciences and the humanities as of 2024 update it publishes more than 500 journals on behalf of learned societies around the world 47 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 so called hybrid open access journals offering optional open access to authors which provides all readers with online access to their paper free of charge 48 the oxford open model applies to the majority of their journals 49 oup is a member of the open access scholarly publishers association 50 oup is a signatory of the sdg publishers compact 51 52 and has taken steps to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals sdgs in the publishing industry 53 54 55 56 these include the publishing of a new series of oxford open journals including oxford open climate change oxford open energy oxford open immunology oxford open infrastructure and health and oxford open digital health 57 58 59 series and titles edit oxford university press dictionaries seven of the twenty volumes of the oxford english dictionary second edition 1989 oxford university press publishes a variety of dictionaries e g oxford english dictionary shorter oxford english dictionary compact oxford english dictionary compact editions of the oxford english dictionary compact oxford english dictionary of current english concise oxford english dictionary oxford dictionary of marketing oxford advanced learner s dictionary english as a second or foreign language resources e g let s go english language exams e g oxford test of english and the oxford placement test bibliographies e g oxford bibliographies online 60 miscellaneous series such as very short introductions and books on indology music classics literature history bibles and atlases many of these are published under the oxford languages brand clarendon scholarships edit since 2001 oxford university press has financially supported the clarendon bursary a university of oxford graduate scholarship scheme 61 controversies edit tehran book fair controversy edit in february 1989 iran s ayatollah khomeini issued a fatwa urging the execution of british author salman rushdie and of all involved in the publication of his novel the satanic verses rushdie went into hiding and an international movement began to boycott book trading with iran there was therefore outrage when in april 1989 oup broke the worldwide embargo and chose to attend the tehran book fair oup justified this by saying we deliberated about it quite deeply but felt it certainly wasn t in our interests or iran s as a whole to stay away 62 the new york times 63 and the sunday times 64 both condemned oxford s decision malcolm vs oxford university 1986 1992 edit in 1990 in the uk court of appeal author andrew malcolm won a landmark legal judgment against oxford university press for its breach of a contract to publish his philosophical text making names reporting on the verdict in the observer laurence marks wrote it is the first time in living memory that grub street has won such a victory over its oppressors 65 the appeal court judges were highly critical of oxford s conduct of the affair and the litigation 66 the case ended in july 1992 with a tomlin order a damages settlement under which the servants and agents of oxford university are permanently barred from denigrating malcolm or making names rendering it the first book in literary history to be afforded such legal protection 67 68 69 the case was reported to have cost oxford over 500 000 70 closure of poetry list edit in november 1998 oup announced the closure on commercial grounds of its modern poetry list andrew potter oup s director of music trade paperbacks and bibles told the times that the list just about breaks even the university expects us to operate on commercial grounds especially in this day and age 71 in the same article the poet d j enright who had been with oup since 1979 said there was no warning it was presented as a fait accompli even the poetry editor didn t know the money involved is peanuts it s a good list built up over many years 71 in february 1999 arts minister alan howarth made a speech in oxford in which he denounced the closure oup is not merely a business it is a department of the university of oxford and has charitable status it is part of a great university which the government supports financially and which exists to develop and transmit our intellectual culture it is a perennial complaint by the english faculty that the barbarians are at the gate indeed they always are but we don t expect the gatekeepers themselves the custodians to be barbarians 72 oxford s professor valentine cunningham wrote in the times higher education supplement increasingly oup has behaved largely like a commercial outfit with pound signs in its eyes and a readiness to dumb down for the sake of popularity and sales sacking poets not because they lose money but because they do not make enough of it it is an allegory of a university press missing the point mistaking its prime purpose 73 in march 1999 the times literary supplement commissioned andrew malcolm to write an article under the strapline why the present constitution of the oup cannot work 74 a decade later oup s managing director ivon asquith reflected on the public relations damage caused by the episode if i had foreseen the self inflicted wound we would suffer i would not have let the proposal get as far as the finance committee 75 tax exemption controversies edit since the 1940s both oup and the cambridge university press cup had made applications to the inland revenue for exemption from corporate tax the first application by cup in 1940 was rejected on the ground that since the press was printing and publishing for the outside world and not simply for the internal use of the university the press s trade went beyond the purpose and objects of the university and in terms of the act was not exercised in the course of the actual carrying out of a primary purpose of the university 76 similar applications by oup in 1944 and 1950 were also rejected by the inland revenue whose officers repeatedly pointed out that the university presses were in open competition with commercial tax liable publishers in november 1975 cup s chief executive geoffrey cass again applied to the inland revenue and a year later cup s tax exemption was quietly conceded 77 78 oup s chief executive george richardson followed suit in 1977 oup s tax exemption was granted in 1978 the decisions were not made public the issue was only brought to public attention due to press interest in oup following the poetry list closure controversy 73 in 1999 the campaigner andrew malcolm published his second book the remedy where he alleged that oup breached its 1978 tax exemption conditions this was reported in a front page article in the oxford times along with oup s response 79 in march 2001 after a 28 year battle with the indian tax authorities oup lost its tax exemption in india the supreme court ruled that oup was not tax exempt in the subcontinent because it does not carry out any university activities there but acts simply as a commercial publisher 80 to pay off back taxes owed since the 1970s oup was obliged to sell its mumbai headquarters building oxford house the bookseller reported that the case has again raised questions about oup s status in the uk 81 in 2003 joel rickett of the bookseller wrote an article in the guardian describing the resentment of commercial rivals at oup s tax exemption rickett accurately predicted that the funds which would have been paid in tax were likely to be used to confirm oup s dominance by buying up other publishers 82 between 1989 and 2018 oup bought out over 70 rival book and journal publishers in 2007 with the new public benefit requirement of the revised charities act the issue was re examined 83 with particular reference to oup 84 in the same year malcolm obtained and posted the documents of oup s applications to the inland revenue for tax exemption in the 1940s and 1950s unsuccessful 85 and the 1970s successful 86 in 2008 cup s and oup s privilege was attacked by rival publishers 87 88 in 2009 the guardian invited andrew malcolm to write an article on the subject 89 east african bribery scandal edit in july 2012 the uk s serious fraud office found oup s branches in kenya and tanzania guilty of bribery to obtain school bookselling contracts sponsored by the world bank oxford was fined 1 9 million in recognition of sums it received which were generated through unlawful conduct and barred from applying for world bank financed projects for three years 90 91 uyghurs edit main article persecution of uyghurs in china in december 2023 concerns were raised that oup had published an academic paper based on genetic data taken from the uyghur population of xinjiang a turkic ethnic group in china 92 rhys blakely a science correspondent for the times reported the research has been published online by oxford university press oup in a journal that receives financial support from china s ministry of justice the highly unusual deal will raise fears that oxford risks becoming entangled in human rights abuses against the uighur community it will also add to concerns over china s efforts to influence uk academia 93 in february oup announced that it was carrying out internal investigations 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