[SIGCIS-Members] Oxford DNB: Sir Edwin Nixon

[Bernardo Batiz-Lazo]

Hello
Seems quite interesting and relevant but I don’t have capacity to deal
with it. If anyone is interested then please contact Alex May at OUP
directly.
Kind regards,
Bernardo


From: MAY, Alex [mailto:alex.may at oup.com]
Sent: 23 February 2010 11:22
To: b.batiz-lazo at leicester.ac.uk
Subject: Oxford DNB: Sir Edwin Nixon

Dear Dr Batiz-Lazo,
As you may know, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was
published in September 2004 simultaneously in print (in 60 volumes)
and online. Since then we have added some 2000 new lives to the
dictionary – 1000 covering the recently-deceased (people who died in
2001-5), plus another 1000 or so covering people who died before our
original cut-off date of the end of 2000 – as well as various lists,
feature essays, teaching materials, etc.  Thanks to an agreement with
the Museums and Libraries Association the online version of the
dictionary is now available in nearly all public libraries in the
country (most of which allow ‘remote access’ from home computers), as
well as in many university libraries throughout the world.
There is more information about the dictionary on our website:
http://www.oxforddnb.com.
I am writing now to ask whether you might be willing to write the
Oxford DNB entry on the late Sir Edwin Nixon, the chief executive of
IBM, banker, and pro-chancellor of Leicester.
What we would be hoping for is an article of approximately 1200 words
to be delivered, if at all possible, by the end of April 2011. The fee
we can offer for the article is £100. This is, I realise, no more than
an honorarium. Nevertheless, I am confident that if you were to write
this article, it would be consulted frequently. I hope, also, that you
might enjoy writing it.
If you are willing to write this entry, we will send copies of the
obituaries in the national broadsheets, GRO certificates, some sample
entries, and various other materials.
I hope very much that you will feel able to say ‘yes’.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Alex May
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(Dr) Alex May
Research editor, Oxford DNB
Tel: 01865-355047
E-mail: alex.may at oup.com
http://www.oxforddnb.com/
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