While yesterday’s organization’s name was a play on Rhodes Scholar, Road Scholar has no affiliation with The University of Oxford. Today’s company does. The Oxford University Press is not only a department of the University, but it is also “the world’s largest university press with the widest global presence.” You can trace its origins all the way back to 1478; however, their U.S. presence only dates to 1896. Oxford University Press now has two offices stateside–one in New York, NY, and the other in Cary, NC (there other offices all around the world). They both play a big part in furthering “the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.”

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Oxford University Press has a great three-minute video that tells their story better than I ever could. I highly recommend that you watch it:

Oxford University Press sells more than 100,000,000 units and 6,000 new titles annually. They are an academic publishing behemoth, and they publish works in the following areas: Arts & Humanities, Dictionaries & Reference, Law, Medicine & Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. If you’d like to help them to continue to thrive in a world where publishing businesses are often imperiled, take a look at Oxford University Press’ Careers page. The U.S. based jobs are listed here, and they include great opportunities for new and recent grads like:

• Assistant Editor (New York, NY)
• Marketing Assistant (New York, NY)
• Marketing Associate (Cary, NC)
• Publicity Assistant (New York, NY)
• Marketing Database Administrator (New York, NY)

All of the jobs look like really great ways to break into the publishing business.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• OUP.com
• Jobs at Oxford University Press
• About Oxford University Press
• Oxford University Press News

Have you read anything from Oxford University Press lately?

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