This afternoon I received the following from OUP announcing their new online resource. On quick inspection the site looks very nice (I happen to be using Coogan’s textbook this semester). What really piqued my interest was Liz’s comment that “we have been following your blog here at Oxford.” Really? Liz, if you are please do leave a comment! In the meantime I pass along their offer of free access for the month of May. Details below.
Dear, Christian,
I’m pleased to let you know that Oxford’s Biblical Studies Online launched – Oxford’s latest comprehensive online resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. We have been following your blog here at Oxford, and thought it would be an interesting idea to ‘open up’ our new site and provide free access to your readership until the end of May. While I realize that sales posts are not really appropriate, I wanted to explore a way with you to let your readers know that this is available for them. I’m quite confident that your community will be familiar with Oxford’s long traditional in biblical publishing and scholarship, and it is my hope that this free access offer will enrich their research further.
You can see more about the product here www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com , especially detail on content, features and the scholarship in the new site. Your readers can get access to a free trial to expire end of May 2009. They simply need to go to www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com and type in the following authentication:
User: presspass
Password: springtimeWe often work with blogs to bring some of our finest authors to ‘guest blog’ about interesting topics and open up debate; further we also supply books regularly for review. Please let me know if this would be of interest to you, and we can set something up.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
LizLiz Kieffe, Marketing Associate
Oxford University Press
212.726.6438“As electronic resources increasingly become the primary tool used by readers at all levels, Oxford’s long and distinguished history of publishing Bibles, commentaries on the Bible, dictionaries of biblical languages, and related works make it the ideal publisher of a new kind of reference work, Oxford Biblical Studies Online.”— Michael Coogan, Editor in Chief of Oxford Biblical Studies Online and forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible
6 thoughts on “OUP is watching me! (and Oxford Biblical Studies Online launched)”
me too. oh fame…
Me too! And lots of others. It’s good to think (I think) that they are now marketing through the blogs; at least it shows that we are regarded as important to them.
I assumed that many others received it as well, I am just waiting for Liz to leave a note. 😉
We here at OUP have many eyes! 🙂
Oh, we’re watching, Chris. 😉
Your blogs are incredibly important, a voice of and for your communities; on behalf of all of us at Oxford, I’d like to thank you for spreading the (good) news.
Enjoy!
Anne and Liz – Great to know your are watching! Thanks so much. (Now…about my book proposal….)