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UKti trade mission to China
Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research
Oxford Brookes and UK Trade & Investment Team South East funded and promoted a visit by eight local companies to the prestigious Beijing Book Fair in China.
Eight publishers from the Oxfordshire area travelled to China from 27 August to 4 September 2005. Beginning with two days in Shanghai, the mission transferred to Beijing for the Beijing International Book Fair. Meetings were arranged by the Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research, Oxford Brookes University, represented by Adrian Bullock and Angus Phillips.
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Long Live the Book
The International Book Conference finished today with presentations from a range of speakers. The overall conclusion was that the Book will not die and in fact is flourishing. Yes, we heard about problems in the Book Trade on the High Street, Academic Publishing and even the death nell of the monograph. But still the book is even more accessible through new channels and technologies.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 13 Sep 2005 around 3pm
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Book Conference Opens
The Annual Book Conference, hosted by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies has got off to a good start.During the first day of The Book Conference the delegates and attendees enjoyed a good range of speakers including Juliet Gardiner, Carole Blake and Peter Mayer (all seen here). Their perspectives on the relationship between authors and publishers sparked a lively debate during the second plenary session.
During the first plenary session of the conference, Antony Beever of the Society of Authors (UK), set the scene with a comprehensive review of the threats to authors' rights.
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Publishing Students at the World Bank
Three students from the MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes have spent the summer as interns at the World Bank in Washington DC. Xu Yanmei, Wai Sum Cheung and Jan Kasprzycki-Rosikon have been working in the Office of the Publisher at the World Bank. In July they were visited by Angus Phillips from Oxford Brookes, who discussed arrangements for the internship scheme with Richard Crabbe from the World Bank.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 30 Aug 2005 around 2pm
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Visit from Higher Education Press, China
A delegation of 20 publishers from Higher Education Press in Beijing visited the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. Over a two-week period, the delegates attended training sessions on campus and met with local publishers including OUP, Elsevier, and Blackwell. The visit ended with a morning of presentations in Headington Hill Hall. This is the fourth visit from HEP and it is hoped to welcome a further delegation next year. Adrian Bullock and Angus Phillips will be meeting HEP at the Book Fair in Beijing later in the summer, when they accompany the UKti trade mission to China.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 15 Jul 2005 around 12pm
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From Electronic to Interactive
The new web site is up for a new masters programme in Publshing - MA Interactive Media Publishing. Several months into the preparations and loads of meetings and a revalidation - the new programme sees a change of name and a closer integration with the MA Publishing Programme delivered in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. This Autumn, the MA Electronic Media will be replaced by the MA Interactive Media Publishing - 10 years after the Electronic Media course was started in the then, School of Art, Publishing and Music.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04 Jun 2005 around 9am
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epublishing Prizes
Harcourt Education, a publishing company with local offices in Oxford, have been involved with the MA epublishing module for the fourth year running. Small teams of students have developed new electronic prototype products based on Harcourt's Heinemann secondary school books. At the end of the module the prototype websites were presented and in addition to each one being graded as normal, a representative from Harcourt was in attendance to choose first and second prize winners. Ian Cavey, e-Learning and Online Manager for Harcourt Education, was impressed with the students and reported that "all the presentations were of a very high standard. All the groups had obviously carried out a large amount of research and came up with some original and innovative ideas." The first prize of £350 went to a group of three students, Julian Littlewood, Junwen Deng and Lisa Morgan who produced a web site based on the Heinemann Eureka Success in Science course material. Second prize of £150 went to Helen Moreno, Sara Porter and Bethan Thomas for their website based on the Heinemann Themes in RE: Learning from Religions, a book targeting key stage 3.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 20 May 2005 around 8am
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What ever happened to Cool Britannia? Publishing Lecturer responds…
While the UK was voting in the general election, Claire Squires (Publishing), was invited to speak at the conference 'What ever happened to Cool Britannia? The UK after eight years of Blair', held in Montreal from 4-6 May 2005. Claire gave a paper entitled '"Young, Gifted and Very Good Looking": British Literature and Publishing in the 1990s and 2000s', on a panel which focused on Contemporary British Culture. The conference was hosted by the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at the Universite de Montreal in Canada. Papers from the conference, which included the keynote speakers Anthony Seldon, Geoff Mulgan and Theodore Marmor, are available as video online.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 17 May 2005 around 7pm
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Dissertation Award for Brookes Publishing Graduate
Kimberley Morgan is one of two winners of the Sue Thompson Foundation Publishing Awards 2004 for her dissertation entitled Publishing in the Fifth Dimension: Theosophy and the Birth of Mind, Body and Spirit Publishing. The press release issued on 12th May 2005 states. "Kimberley Morgan, a BA student at Oxford Brookes University, selected, in theosophy, what might seem at first an unlikely subject. She researched and tracks its development into a publishing movement with international dimensions, albeit not a commercial one at the outset, and identifies a vast bibliography. "Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 16 May 2005 around 1pm
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Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print
Oxford University Press has announced the forthcoming September publication of Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 by Dr. Jane Potter of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. This book turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers that appealed to a British mass reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 26 Apr 2005 around 9am
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