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10/12/07 New online edition of Who's Who and Who Was Who is unveiled! Read the press release...

07/12/07 The winners of the Oxford Online Library Champion Awards have now been announced! More info...

05/06/07 Oxford University Press and A & C Black to publish new online version of Who's Who and Who Was Who. More info...

18/04/07 Oxford African American Studies Center wins 'outstanding work of reference published in electronic format' at the ISG (CILIP) / BookData Reference Awards 2006. Judging criteria included: the authority and quality of the work; scope and coverage; arrangement, and currency of the information; quality of indexing; adequacy of references; physical presentation; originality; and value for money. Read the press release

22/01/07 Oxford University Press announces major expansion of publishing new scholarly monographs online. From September 2007 scholars and students will have unrivalled access to online monographs in the core areas of: Biology, Business/Management, Classics, History, Maths, Linguistics, Literature, Physics and Psychology - in addition to the current list of available subjects: Economic and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion. Read the press release...

03/01/07 Your language needs you!
Did you wear a shell-suit before 1989 or call someone a wazzock before 1984? Do you know anyone who is daft as a brush, and why you might describe them this way? In conjunction with the second series of the BBC's Balderdash & Piffle (broadcasting weekly on BBC2 from Friday 11 May to Friday 6 July 2007, at 10pm), the OED invites you once again to hunt for words and help rewrite 'the greatest book in the English language'. More info...

15/12/06 Search Oxford Reference Online's literature titles direct from CSA/Proquest's Literature Online!
Over thirty prestigious literary reference titles from the Premium and Literature Collections of Oxford Reference Online can now be cross-searched from CSA/ProQuest's Literature Online interface, bringing together two of the most authoritative and respected electronic resources for literary study. Read the press release...

Coming October 2007! Oxford University Press and Electronic Enlightenment
Oxford University Press will be the exclusive worldwide distributor of Electronic Enlightenment (EE) when this new online resource launches in 2007. EE will offer innovative online access to the full critical editions of the letters of more than 3,800 writers and thinkers of the 18th century, including Bentham, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Swift and Voltaire. More info...

Coming September 2007! Oxford Language Dictionaries Online to launch in 2007
From September 2007, Oxford's high-quality language reference content in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian will be accessible online. More info...

New Northern Ireland public libraries agreement
A new agreement between Oxford University Press and the public library service in Northern Ireland means that the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford English Dictionary Online, Oxford Reference Online, Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online are now available free of charge to ALL public library members in Northern Ireland until 31 March 2008 - find out more...

New English public libraries agreement
A range of Oxford Online resources is widely available in almost all public libraries in England as a result of a landmark agreement between Oxford University Press and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - find out more...