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he Oxford Digital Reference Shelf programme continues to grow and now includes close to 50 titles, allowing OUP to offer key reference works in a convenient electronic format specifically designed for A-Z content. Titles in the programme can be purchased individually and, for Oxford Reference Online subscribers, are integrated with that service. A recent addition to the programme is The Oxford Companion to the Book, a unique and original work on all aspects of the book from ancient times to the present day. Edited by Michael Suarez, Professor and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, and Henry Woudhuysen, Professor of English at University College London, the Companion has already received positive reviews with the Sunday Telegraph calling it a “magnificent reference work is a tribute to - and celebration of - a revolutionary invention”. OUP Editor Joanna Harris explains it is “a publication that epitomizes the press’s publishing aims as one of the oldest—and largest—university presses in the world”. For more information visit www.oxford-bookcompanion.com. OUP is also announcing a major new distribution partnership with academic publishers Continuum for the publication of electronic editions of a critical selection of Continuum’s leading scholarly reference titles. The first titles to be released include the Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Biographical Dictionary of American Economists, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, and Encyclopedia of History of American Management. For more information please contact: Outside the Americas: onlineproducts@oup.com Americas: oxford.reference@oup.com
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s this issue of Illuminea goes to press, a combined Oxford Journals and HighWire Press project team in Oxford and California is working hard on our largest-ever joint project: relaunching the Oxford Journals websites on “H2O” HighWire’s new content delivery platform. The rebuild of the HighWire platform uses technology and standards which power the web’s top websites. It will allow OUP to deliver web publishing services more effectively for its customers – authors, researchers, societies, and librarians. Technology is one part of the partnership between the two organizations. Oxford Journals has been working with HighWire Press since 1999, and we share a vision of the importance of scholarly publishing. “HighWire’s mission is to ensure the continuing success of independent, societybased, and other scientific and scholarly publishers in their efforts to disseminate high-quality content worldwide.” John Sack’s summary of the HighWire mission complements the Press’s own purpose: to further the objectives of the University through dissemination of the highest quality research as widely as possible. In our twelve year history we have come through challenging times. The competitive intensity of web publishing is increasing, it seems almost daily, with competitors launching new products and services. Our joint ambition is to work together in order to exploit the opportunities which H2O offers, and deliver the next generation of online scholarly publishing.