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Backchat - OUP seeks to heal wounds over online dictionary errors.(Oxford University Press )(Brief Article)
Good to see hardy salespeople from OUP had donned their flameproof vests at the London Book Fair after all the publicity over factual infelicities in the new Dictionary of National Biography. Users of the new 60-volume tome (a snip at [pounds sterling]7,500) were warned by academics steeped in the life stories of Florence Nightingale, Jane Austen and George V (pictured), that their entries were shot through with errors. But staff insisted online versions made corrections a ...
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