Oxford University Press

publishing arm of the University of Oxford
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Summary

Oxford University Press is a university press[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of university press entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,808 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association[3], Dryad[4], ORCID, Inc.[5], Committee on Publication Ethics[6], Publishers Association Limited[7], Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers[8], CHORUS[9], International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers[10], Book Industry Study Group[11]
  • Country: United Kingdom[12]
  • Instance of: book publisher[13], organization[14], publishing house[15], open-access publisher[16]
  • Owned by: University of Oxford[17]
  • Named after: University of Oxford[18]
  • Headquarters location: Oxford[19]
  • Postal code: OX2 6DD[20]
  • Child organization or unit: Oxford University Press Argentina SA[21], Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand[22], Oxford University Press do Brasil[23], Oxford University Press Canada[24], Oxford University Press Czech Republic[25], Oxford University Press France[26], Oxford University Press Ghana[27], Oxford University Press Greece[28], Oxford University Press China Ltd[29], Oxford University Press Hungary[30], Oxford University Press India[31], Oxford University Press East Africa Ltd[32], Oxford University Press Pakistan[33], Oxford University Press Poland[34]
  • Commons category: Oxford University Press[35]
  • Inception: 1586[36]
  • Location of formation: Oxford[37]
  • Parent organization or unit: University of Oxford[38]
  • Official website: https://corp.oup.com/[39]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Oxford University Press[40]
  • Main subject: humanities[41], social science[42], study of history[43]
  • Participant in: OA Switchboard[44]
  • Legal form: limited company[45]
  • Official blog URL: https://blog.oup.com/[46]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[47]

  • Country: GB[48]

  • Genre(s): audio documentary[49]

  • Community tags: audio documentary[50]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 00325c55-7326-4898-be9f-db196a9e4211[51]

Why It Matters

Oxford University Press has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

Works attributed to it include American National Biography Online[54], a website[55], founded in 2000[56], written by American Council of Learned Societies[57].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . WeChangEd. wechanged.ugent.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . global.oup.com. Retrieved . global.oup.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [19] ↑ . WeChangEd. wechanged.ugent.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [4] ↑ . datadryad.org. Retrieved . datadryad.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [6] ↑ . publicationethics.org. Retrieved . publicationethics.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [7] ↑ . publishers.org.uk. Retrieved . publishers.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [8] ↑ . alpsp.org. Retrieved . alpsp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [10] ↑ . stm-assoc.org. Retrieved . stm-assoc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [11] ↑ . bisg.org. Retrieved . bisg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . oaswitchboard.org. Retrieved . oaswitchboard.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . blog.oup.com. Retrieved . blog.oup.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [47] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [50] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [51] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [55] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Lvaudor · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → university press, book publisher, organization +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: academic publisher"
  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 96FC-B3B2-9FDC-0ECD-D6F6
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  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  5. 16w ago · Porantim · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Musicbrainz label id → 00325c55-7326-4898-be9f-db196a9e4211
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  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0326774-Oxford-University-Press
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0326774-Oxford-University-Press, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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