Telling your patrons

Promote your subscription in print

• You can download and print:


• brochures
• bookmarks
• posters



as well as an eye-catching double-sided introductory guide to the Oxford DNB.

Promote your subscription on screen

• You can copy our flashing website banner
• You can link to the dictionary with one of these buttons:

Biographies and portraits of famous, infamous, and fascinating people from every period of British history



• How to add a button

• You can add an Oxford DNB search box to your web page:
  

  Search Oxford DNB person full text

  Find a biography

• How to add a search box
  
  
• The next box will run a search for everyone born in a particular place. You can customize it so your patrons can find everyone in the dictionary born in their own home town, with a single click.
  
  

  Who was born where I live? Find out with Oxford DNB

  
  
• How to add and customize the "Where I live" box

Other promotional material for librarians on Oxford DNB and all OUP's electronic resources is available from the Online Products Librarian Resource Centre.

David Parish, Information Services Librarian at Poole Central Library, writes:

You sent me an update announcement showing me how to put a link on our website to “who was born where I live” from the Oxford DNB. I tailored it to become “who was born in Poole”.

During September our use of DNB via the library website (www.boroughofpoole.com/libraries) was more than double.

Thanks!

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