The OUP Bibliographies is an amazing project and the standard is very high.  The materials are endlessly useful and important for students, particularly.  However, I do not like or agree with OUP's policy about continuing updates.  Yes, obviously the bibliographies should be revised and updated from time to time.  But the amount of work that goes into these bibliographies is huge and severely under-resourced by OUP.   First, the payment they offer for the original work is completely out of proportion to the weeks of work that goes into it.  But more shocking is that they offer little or nothing for the labour of updating these bibliographies.  This is extremely specialized work.  In any other professional field it would be very expensive.  Imagine asking a lawyer to "update" some legal documentation, for example.  The rate would be several hundreds of dollars per hour.

OUP asked me to update my bibliography and, after some discussion, I refused because the terms were insultingly meagre.  I think they offered a couple of free books.  In the real world of professionalism, this would buy about thirty minutes of time.

I'm not really interested in the money per se.  But it's plain unethical of OUP to profiteer on our backs like this.  Finally, if all the money goes to publishers and their investors, it's not going to students and researchers.  OUP makes noises about being a university press and being dedicated to research etc., but their business model is not distinguishable from the most rapacious profiteers.

Best,

Dominik