Awards and prizes

Since its publication in September 2004 the Oxford DNB has been honoured with the following awards and prizes:

• Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, 2007
  
  • Press release
  
  
  
• Best user experience: International Information Industry Awards 2005
  
  • International Information Industry Awards, 2005   > press release
  
  
  
• Best book, scholarly, academic, and reference category: British Book Design and Production Awards 2005
  
  • 'a paradigm of a reference work'
  • British Book Design and Production Awards 2005
  
  
  
• Besterman/McColvin Medal 2005 for the outstanding electronic reference work of the year: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (ISG / CILIP)
  
  • 'an enormously impressive and highly authoritative work in all aspects'
  • CILIP awards 2005   > press release
  
  
  
• Dartmouth Medal 2005 for the creation of a reference work of outstanding quality and significance: American Library Association
  • 'an essential tool for historians that will stand the test of time'
  • About the Dartmouth Medal   > press release
  
  
  
• Special citation: National Book Critics Circle Awards 2005
  
  • 'perhaps the happiest marriage yet of print and electronic publishing'
  
  
  
• Trustees' Award for the promotion of history: Longman-History Today Awards 2005
  
  • 'The outstanding event in history in 2004 was undoubtedly the publication of the vast, and vastly useful, Oxford DNB'
  • The Longman-History Today Awards

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