(May 7, 2003) OxfordReference.com, the electronic resource from Oxford University Press, won the 2003 Codie Award for Best Online Reference at the 18th Annual Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Conference. The award was presented at a black-tie gala last night at the conclusion of the SIIA 2003 Annual Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
SIIA's Codie Awards showcase the finest products and services in the software and information industry. The Codies are also the only peer recognition program for software developers, providing a unique opportunity for companies to compete for recognition from their competitors. Codie Awards finalists represent a wide variety of companies that range from emerging start-ups to traditional industry powerhouses like Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.
"We're absolutely thrilled that the software industry chose to honor Oxford - a traditional reference publisher - as we move towards combining online and print references into a single integrated program", noted Lisa Nachtigall, Associate Director of Sales and Marketing, Online Products for OUP USA. "Oxford is committed to delivering authoritative content to users in the best format, whether that is between the covers of a book or online - or both!"
"The Software & Information Industry Association congratulates Oxford University Press on winning a 2003 Codie Award," said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA, "in a category with first-rate competition. Being a finalist is a solid achievement and winning a Codie Award is a high honor."
Since publishing the first volume of The Oxford English Dictionary in 1884, Oxford University Press has always been at the vanguard of reference publishing. In 2002, OUP proudly unveiled the largest single reference source ever available. OxfordReference.com contains over 1.5 million entries - definitions from Oxford's English and bilingual dictionaries, facts, figures, people, places, dates, sayings, usage notes, quotations, and subject reference books - all combined into one integrated knowledge resource!
From 'Aalenian' in The Dictionary of Earth Sciences to 'ZZ Ceti star' in The Dictionary of Astronomy, OxfordReference.com offers desktop access to 100 different Oxford dictionaries and reference works in a fully searchable digital form. This amazing service covers a vast array subjects in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and science, with more to be added regularly. Whether users need a simple definition of a word or complete overview of a discipline, this unique database offers a wide choice of search options for students, scholars, and researchers.
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