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Partnership with World Oral Literature Project at Cambridge University
Posted: 10/11/2009

Open Book Publishers is very pleased to have commenced a partnership with the World Oral Literature Project, based at the University of Cambridge, in the creation of an Oral Literature Series.
The Oral Literature Series will work to preserve and promote the oral literatures of indigenous people by publishing materials on endangered traditions in innovative ways. Lying at the intersection of anthropology and linguistics, the study of oral genres is an exciting and developing field, but one with few publishing outlets. While linguists may relegate their textual corpus to an appendix, anthropologists similarly harvest elements of oral literature to make comparative or theoretical points. The richness and contextual meaning of oral narratives is thus often lost in the process. Combining print-on-demand technology with online delivery of multi-media content, the innovative publishing practices adopted by Open Book Publishers make the dissemination of such unique literary traditions possible for the first time. The World Oral Literature Project is committed to supporting the publication and dissemination of transcribed narrative works which have been collected, analysed and glossed by ethnographers, field linguists or local researchers, Open Book Publishers is proud to be working with them to achieve this.

Partnership with Re:Enlightenment Project at NYU and NYPL
Posted: 07/10/2009

Open Book Publishers is very pleased to be involved with the newly established Re:Enlightenment Project. This is an innovative new research project involving New York University, New York Public Library and a number of other research institution, including the University of Cambridge. The project aims to both facilitate and analyze the creation of new knowledge in the digital age - taking the period of the Enlightenment as a historical reference point. See the project website <http://www.reenlightenment.org> for more details.
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines, due to be published in December 2009,  will be the first title to emerge from this partnership.