LISNews: Librarian News

Paula Hane writes...

\"For the past 2 years, searchers have had Web access to about 50 ready-reference sources from xrefer.com. Now, the company has officially announced the launch of xreferplus, its new subscription reference service for libraries www.xreferplus.com. The free site is still available www.xrefer.com. It offers general reference works—encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations—and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. There are over 1 million entries. The cross-referencing technology connects related information across all the works and has generated an additional network of over 5 million xreferences.\" More