UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION
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Fax +44 (0)1865 284610
Web http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk Email email@voltaire.ox.ac.uk
Dear XXXX
The enclosed questionnaire is sent to all authors and editors. The information you provide
here is essential in our efforts to promote and sell your forthcoming book as effectively as
possible. We will use this questionnaire as our guide on:
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creating publicity copy
composing the back cover text
posting listservs and website notices
creating promotional flyers
the key conferences for your book
We will also use it to guide our decisions on journal review copies and other media
promotional activity. This questionnaire may contain some questions that you cannot
answer, but please complete it as fully as you can, then return it to me by email by
XXXX.
Thank you,
Lyn Roberts
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I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full name:
2. Title of the book (provisional):
3. Home address:
Academic affiliation / University:
Academic address:
Work telephone number:
Home telephone number:
Email:
Mobile / Cell number:
4. Will you be away from your home and university for extensive periods during the next
12 months? If so, please give details (dates and alternative email / telephone details):
5. Edited books only.
a) Please supply a list of the names, academic affiliations, postal addresses and email
addresses of all contributors to your book.
This list should be supplied by email as a separate Word document.
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II. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
1. Present position:
2. Academic associations of which you are member, or groups who would be interested
in your book, for example CAA (College Art Association), Society for French Studies, or
a less formal research group?
3. Books published:
Title / Publisher / Date and place of publication
4. Biographical sketch (for back cover of book), 50 words max:
(list your current position, main areas of research and key publications / works in
progress)
5. Any other professional information relevant to your book’s promotion (e.g. awards
gained, key past positions held):
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III. PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION
The texts we ask you to provide here will form the basis of the book’s back cover text,
and other promotional texts. Please consider the texts carefully, as they need to appeal to
non-specialists (such as librarians) and specialists (other researchers working in the same
field) alike. These texts should be supplied by email as a separate Word document.
1. Please list 4 key subject categories for the book (e.g. book history / women’s studies):
2. Please provide a description of the book (50 words max): this will be used for the
Voltaire Foundation’s email bulletin and listserv postings.
3. Please provide a description of the book in 200 words max: this will be used as the
basis for the back cover text.
para 1: rationale for the book / why is the subject important?
para 2: what are the key features of the book? what does your book ‘do’? what is it telling
people?
4. The front covers of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series books
contain a black /white illustration in landscape (horizontal) format. Illustrations are
provided by authors / editors, and should be clear and relate to the subject matter of your
book. Electronic versions of illustrations are preferred, as either JPEG or TIFF files, at a
minimum of 300 dpi (dots per inch) but ideally 600 dpi when scanned at a size of 15 cm
width by 10 cm length. Please contact us for further details if necessary.
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IV. PUBLICITY and ADVERTISING INFORMATION
1. The journals below will receive either a review copy or an invitation to review your
book. Mark a cross [X] next to those journals that are relevant to your book, and add any
other journals that you think are likely to review your book:
Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France
Studi Francesi
Year’s Work in Modern Language
Studies
Journal of Modern History
English Historical Review
Romanische Forschungen
Eighteenth-Century Life
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(formerly BJECS)
Revue Dix-Huitième siècle
Eighteenth-Century Studies
French Studies
Modern Langage Review
Revue de synthèse
Revue d’histoire moderne et
contemporaine (RHMC)
Additional Journals:
2. Does your book have any local interest?
3. Please provide us with the name and email address of the publicity information
officer at your university.
Librarian information
4. a) Please provide the name, address and email address of your subject librarian(s).
b) Does your university library hold an annual subscription to Oxford University Studies
in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC)?
c) How do you recommend books for library purchase? Do you have a form to
complete? Do you have a Faculty library rep? Other?
Edited books only
d) Please provide the name, address and email address of each contributor’s subject
librarian(s).
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5. Print and broadcast media.
Please list contact details of any media (newspaper columnists, editorial writers, radio
commentators) who might review or comment on the book, or interview you. Please
specify if you have any acquaintance with them.
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V. CONFERENCE INFORMATION and KEY UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS
1. Please list academic conferences where we can include promotional material for your
book, or exhibit the book.
Conference / Date / Location / Author attending?
2. Have you any future speaking engagements, readings, guest teachings, etc. that might
tie in with the promotion of the book?
3. Is this book of interest to tutors of specific advanced undergraduate or postgraduate
courses?
Course name and Level / Tutor & Email
4. Please list the top 5 US, 5 UK and 5 other European university departments and the
names of the relevant researchers within these departments who would welcome
receiving publicity information on your book (e.g. Prof Joe Bloggs, Department of
French, Stanford University):
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VI. INTERNET and ONLINE MARKETING INFORMATION
1. We post listserv notices to the H-France, SECFS and francofil listervs, and the
FABULA website. Are there any other listervs, websites, bulletin boards or electronic
journals we can explore? Please give details of the listserv and web address:
2. Do you have a personal website (see also section IV, Q. 6)? If so, would you like us to
consider linking to it?
3. Social media.
i) Do you or does your University have a Facebook page?
If YES, please link to the Voltaire Foundation Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/VoltaireFoundation?ref=ts&fref=ts).
Once your book is available on our online catalogue, please also link to it.
ii) Does your University offer podcasting facilities?
If YES please consider recording a short talk or ‘Q and A’ about your work, linking it in
to your book.
iii) Do you have a blog or Twitter account?
If YES please post a blog / tweet, to engage with your readers, ensuring that you cite and
link to your book’s online catalogue page.
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Many thanks for completing this questionnaire.
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