Highly Commended indexes
The Society encourages excellence in indexing by awarding a certificate for a superior index among those submitted for the medal which do is not, in the opinion of the panel of judges, of medal standard yet deserves recognition as work of high standard.
1985–88 Category not used
1989
Michael Harrington. Style manual for authors, editors and printers 4th edition (Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988)
1990
Max McMaster. Kimberlites and related rocks: 4th International Kimberlite Conference, Perth, 1986 (Blackwell Scientific, 1989) 2v.
Elmar Zalums. Australia's Commonwealth Parliament, 1901–1988: ten perspectives, by G. S. Reid (Melbourne University Press, 1989)
1991
Dorothy Prescott. Geology of the mineral deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, edited by F. E. Hughes (Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1990) 2v
Elmar Zalums. Gipps–La Trobe correspondence, 1839–1846, edited by A. G. L. Shaw (Miegunyah Press, 1989)
1992
Josephine Cardale. Insects of Australia: a textbook for students and research workers, CSIRO, Division of Entomology 2nd edition (Melbourne University Press, 1991)
1993
Michael Cathcart. Manning Clark's History of Australia, abridged by Michael Cathcart (Melbourne University Press, 1993)
Elmar Zalums. The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia, edited by Nicholas Tarling (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
1994
Patricia Holt. A history of Hawthorn, by Victoria M. Peel, Deborah R. Zion and Jane Yule (Melbourne University Press, 1993)
Kingsley Siebel. The laws of Australia, volume 5: Civil procedure (Law Book Company, 1994)
Geraldine Suter. Australian criminal justice, by Mark Findlay, Stephen Odgers and Stanley Yeo (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Alan Walker. Blackstone's Guide to Australian legal books, 1986–1990, general editor, Paul K. Cooper (Blackstone Press, 1993)
Alan Walker. ASC digest, by Alan Walker, Christine Skourletos, et al (Australian Securities Commission, 1994)
1995
Glenda Browne. Pharmacology and drug information for nurses (Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995)
Pamela Johnstone. Online currents, volume 9, 1994 (Enterprise Information Management, 1995)
1996 no award
1997
Clodagh Jones. The silence calling: Australians in Antarctica, 1947–97, by Tim Bowden (Allen & Unwin, 1997)
Max McMaster. Exploring Central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn expedition, edited by S. R. Morton and D. J. Mulvaney (Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1996)
Dorothy Prescott. A guide to maps of Australia in books published 1780–1830: an annotated cartobibliography, compiled by T. M. Perry and Dorothy Prescott (National Library of Australia, 1996)
1998
Clodagh Jones. The journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin, July 1838–May 1868, edited by Lucy Frost (University of Queensland Press, 1997)
1999
Max McMaster. Flora of Victoria, volume 4: Dicotyledons Cornaceae to Asteraceae, editors, N. G. Walsh and T. J. Entwistle (Inkata Press, 1999)
2000
Madeleine Davis. Frank Lowy: pushing the limits, by Jill Margo (HarperCollins, 2000)
2001
Trevor Matthews. Ecological pioneers: a social history of Australian ecological thought and action, by Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2002 no award
2003
Garry Cousins. Dark victory, by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson (Allen & Unwin, 2003)
2004
Max McMaster. Biology: an Australian focus, by Pauline Ladiges, Barbara Evans, Robert Saint and Bruce Knox 3rd edition (McGraw Hill Australia, 2005)
2005 no competition
2006 no award
2007 no award
2008
Glenda Browne. The indexing companion, by Glanda Browne and Jon Jermey (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
2009 no award
