Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. As a department of a charity it enjoys tax exempt status. It transfers 30% of its annual post-tax surplus to the rest of the University, with a commitment to a minimum transfer of £12 million per annum.
It was chartered as one of the two privileged presses in 1634. OUP publishes many reference, professional, and academic works including the Oxford English Dictionary, the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the Oxford World's Classics and the Dictionary of National Biography.
OUP grew into the world's largest press after it received the rights to publish the King James Version of the Bible and it expanded beyond academic and learned printing. Today it publishes more than 4,500 new books a year and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. Of late it has been acquiring specialty publishers such as Oceana Publications.
It has lent its name to the Oxford comma.